The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald – Published by Vintage, 2016. First published in Sweden in 2013 If you liked ‘A Man Called Ove’ you’re pretty certain to like...
A Door Marked Hawker by Nigel Milliner – Published by The Book Guild, 2016 Written by a local author and set on the Roseland (the photo on the cover gives it away), this...
Whispering Hope: The True Story of the Magdalene Women – Nancy Costello, Kathleen Legg, Diane Croghan, Marie Slattery and Marina Gambold with Steven O’Riordan – Published by Orion books, 2015 The terrible, true story...
Mr Mac and Me by Esther Freud – Published by Bloomsbury, 2014 This book was recommended by a friend whose taste in books frequently matches mine; I started reading it some time ago...
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Special Rehearsal Edition Script) Parts One and Two – Based on an original new story by J K Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne – Published by Little,...
The Shepherd’s Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks – Published by Penguin, 2016 Exactly as it ‘says on the tin’, the story of a shepherd working the family farm in...
Zio The Hero by Marc Grimston – Published by Fastprint 2011 and reprinted in 2013 The Baron is an out and out rotter, an old school baddie (boo! hiss!) but he’s no match...
The Cat Lover’s Quotation Book (A collection of Feline Favourites) Published by Hatherleigh Press, 2016 I thought I’d read every book about cats and every quote involving them, but this book proved me wrong....
Polly and Pals Put on a Talent Show! by Vinay Nair Rather a different review from the usual. Why? Well, this delightful little book, aimed at one to three year olds, hasn’t...
Florence Foster Jenkins by Nicholas Martin (screenplay) and Jasper Rees (biography) (The Inspiring True Story of the World’s Worst Singer) – Published by Pan Books, 2016 You’ve seen (or heard of) the film, now...