A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale
Set in West Cornwall, the latest book by Patrick Gale starts with a very current dilemma – whether it is right to stay with someone as they take their own life, and...
Category: Book Reviews 2012
The 3 R’s Do it Yourself by B L Collinge
Something very different for me – a book originally intended for parents of young children, trainee teachers and nursery staff. During her long career, Beryl Collinge used this system to teach a...
Millions Like Us: Women’s Lives During The Second World War by Virginia Nicholson
The story of the war from the women’s perspective, a time when many women were able to show what they were made of for the first time. Fire watching, ambulance drivers, land...
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach
Set in England and India, the book tells of a variety of people, their lives, their circumstances and the reasons they move to India to live out their later years, surrounded by...
Queen Elizabeth II Her Life in Our Times by Sarah Bradford
Sarah Bradford is an historian who has written well received biographies about a range of people, from Disraeli to Diana. In her latest book, timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of...
From Paupers to iPads by Tony Berry
As reported on the front page of the West Briton (5 January 2012), Tony Berry was prompted to leave his home in Australia to discover the lives of his ancestors in Wales,...
She Won’t Get Far Her Bag’s Too Heavy by Marie Stamp
In 2010 Marie Stamp and her dog, each carrying their own luggage, set out to walk the South West Coastal Path. This is her story of the 630 mile journey, the places...
Room by Emma Donoghue
Five year old Jack lives with his Mother in a locked room, unaware there is a world outside. On his birthday he learns that much of what he has seen on TV...
Brave Irene by William Steig
The [short] story of Irene Bobbin, whose Mother has made the “most beautiful dress in the world”. Her Mother is ill so it’s up to Irene to deliver the dress to the...