The Good Father by Diane Chamberlain
In North Carolina, Travis Brown is caring alone for his young daughter, Bella. Everything he does is focussed on providing for her safety and security. But when he loses his job and...
Category: Book Reviews – Sallie Eden
Here comes everybody: The Story of The Pogues by James Fearnley
Written by a key member of the Pogues whose music was described as “a furious, pioneering mix of punk energy, traditional melodies and the powerfully poetic songwriting of Shane MacGowan”, this is...
Disgrace by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Adler-Olsen’s second book featuring Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q (the Cold case division) and his delightfully unorthodox sidekick Assad, this is tipped to be as big as “The Killing” and “The...
Morgue Drawer Four by Jutta Profijt
Pascha/Sascha Lerchenberg is a corpse (or maybe a ghost), unappealing in life and not much mourned in death; Martin Gänsewein is an articulate, committed and hard working Coroner. For the majority of...
Three Thousand Miles for a Wish – Safiya Hussain
Ms Hussain writes of her life, from childhood, through her studies and early career as a lawyer and, most importantly her meeting with someone she thought of as the love of her...
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...
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...