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...
Category: Book Reviews – Sallie Eden
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...
The Food Hospital by Dr Gio Miletto, Lucy Jones and Dr Shaw Somers
Subtitled “Simple, Delicious Recipes For A Healthy Life”, and linked to the current Channel 4 series of the same name, this book aims to explain how food can enhance health and offers...
Forever Rumpole: The Best of the Rumpole Stories by John Mortimer
Fourteen stories, out of almost eighty written between 1978 and 2004, represent “the best” of Rumpole’s career. As a bonus there are the six pages from the novel Mortimer was working on...
Simon’s Cat in Kitten Chaos by Simon Tofield
Since the initial film Cat Man Do, which grew out of testing new software and quickly achieved a cult following, a further 15 films have been added to Simon Tofield’s website www.simonscat.com....
When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
In a book which reads like an autobiography, we learn of Elly’s life from her birth in the late 1960s through her teenage years and beyond, from the suburbs to rural Cornwall...