Heroes of the Coffee Rota by Dave Walker – Published by Canterbury Press, June 2015   Described as a book for “everyone who keeps the church going. Those who lead, arrange, preach, attend,...

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Views Of Our Time … Abstracts by Pat Yallup – (Painting the Sixth Sense) Pat Yallup, an artist, and John Birch, a poet, have collaborated to produce a book of abstract art and...

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Carmen Zita og døden (the drowned boy) by Karin Fossum – Published in English by Penguin 2015 The latest in the series of Chief Inspector Sejer crime novels by Norwegian writer, Karin Fossum,...

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Boys Don’t Knit (In Public) by T S Easton – Published by Hot Key Books in 2014 Ben Fletcher is the teenage son of embarrassing parents. He’s also an accidental and, frankly, hopeless...

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A Year of Thoughts & Pictures by Mark David Hatwood – The Harbour Gallery, Portscatho, 2015 Many readers will already know Mark’s gallery, his music, the film Marcello Marcello, for which he wrote the...

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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman – Published by Sceptre in 2014 Everyone Ove encounters is an idiot. No wonder he’s developed grumpiness into an art form. Rules are made to be...

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The Doctor’s daughter by Vanessa Matthews Published by Completely Novel June 2015 After several weeks of picking up little but disappointing, dispiriting or downright dreadful books, it was a relief to read The...

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The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce Published by Black Swan 2014 Described as the companion to ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’*,  in my view you could read this...

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Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee – Published by William Heinemann, 14 July 2015 55 years after the publication of the Pulitzer prizewinning ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, the sequel ‘Go Set A...

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Quicksand by Steve Toltz – Published by Sceptre, May 2015 Described as “a daring, brilliant work by one of our most original and fearless novelists”, Quicksand is written by the author of the...

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