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...
Category: Book Reviews – Sallie Eden
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...
I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg
By the writer of ‘Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café’, this is the story of Maggie Fortenberry’s plan to end it all – neatly and thoughtfully, just like she has...
Other People’s Money by Justin Cartwright
Sir Harry Trevelyan-Tubal is dying in his opulent Mediterranean villa, attended by his devoted secretary, while his much younger wife is cavorting with a South African personal trainer in London. Meanwhile, his...
You’ve Gone Too Far This Time, Sir! By Danny Bent
Danny Bent cycled 15,000 kilometres from the UK across Europe, the former Soviet Republic, Russia, China and Pakistan to raise money for ActionAid, and take up a teaching post in India. This...