Book Review – June 2021 – Sallie Eden
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2020 How best to describe this book? Should I refer to the many household hints, even though they’re not the real...
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Book Review – May 2021 – Sallie Eden
Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce Published by Penguin, 2021 The latest novel from the author of the ‘Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’ opens with the words “When Margery was...
Book Review – May 2021 – Sallie Eden
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell Published in 2017 by Profile Books Shaun Bythell purchased The Bookshop in Wigtown (known as Scotland’s National Book Town) in 2001 and wrote this book...
Book Reviews – April 2021 – Sallie Eden
Don’t Come Back! by Adam Fletcher Published independently, 2019 Described as “a funny travel adventure of bad-tempered baboons, black magic, and breakups”, this seemed like just the travel related tonic that’s needed...
Book Reviews – April 2021 – Sallie Eden
Hungry by Grace Dent Published by Mudlark, October 2020 Grace Dent is probably best known for her regular appearances on Masterchef, or maybe as the Guardian’s restaurant critic, or for her...
Book Reviews – March 2021 – Sallie Eden
Sunny Side Up by Susan Calman Published by Two Roads, 2018 Watching Susan Calman’s new series ‘Grand Day Out’ on tv, I was prompted to re-read her second book, which is described...
Book Reviews – March 2021 – Sallie Eden
The Austen Girls by Lucy Worsley Published by Bloomsbury, 2020 Written by Lucy Worsley, well known as a TV presenter and for her role as Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, this...
Book Review – August 2020 – Sallie Eden
You will be safe here by Damian Barr Published by Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019 This story starts in 2010 when Willem‘s mother and stepfather take him to New Dawn camp near Johannesburg. They...
Book Reviews – Sallie Eden
Sunny Side Up by Susan Calman Published by Two Roads, 2018 Watching Susan Calman’s new series ‘Grand Day Out’ on tv, I was prompted to re-read her second book, which is described...
Book Reviews – February 2021 – Sallie Eden
Word Perfect (Etymological Entertainment for Every Day of the Year) by Susie Dent Published by John Murray (Hachette), 2020 Written by the Countdown Dictionary Corner etymologist and described as a “linguistic almanac...