Book Review – Writers & Lovers
Author: Lily King – Publisher: Picador– It is the late 1990s and Casey (or is it Camila) is struggling. She is thirty-one, back in Boston, broke, living in a potting…
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Book Review – The Book of Two Ways
Author: Jodi PicoultPublisher: Allen & Unwin Dawn is married to Brian and has a teenage daughter, Meret. They live in Boston. Brian is a professor of physics at Harvard and…
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Shuggie Bain – Author: Douglas StuartPublisher: Picador We first meet Hugh (Shuggie) Bain when he is 16 working at a deli counter at a supermarket and living in a tenement…
Book Review – The Redhead by the Side of the Road
Author: Anne Tyler – Publisher: Vintage – Micah Mortimer is a tall, slim man with poor posture and scruffy clothes, in his early 40’s and who runs his own tech…
Book Review – Anxious People
Author: Fredrik Backman – Publisher: Penguin – The very beginning of this book states, “This story is about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots.” I know what an…
Book Review -The Lying Life of Adults
Author: Elena Ferrante – Publisher: Europa – This is a coming of age story about Giovanna, a twelve-year-old girl growing up in Naples, the good part of Naples. She lives…
Book Review – Hamnet
Author: Maggie O’Farrell – Publisher: Tinder Press – Those who have read my reviews will know my book choices lean towards fiction. I like to escape in a good story….
Book Review – Deacon King Kong
Author: James McBride – Publisher: Doubleday – Causeway Housing Projects were built in South Brooklyn in the 40’s to house the Italians that worked on the docks. But its 1969…
Book review – 28 Summers
Author: Elin Hilderbrand – Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton – One of the drawbacks of finishing a book is that I have to find another one to read. This shouldn’t be…
Book review – The Other Passenger
Author: Louise Candlish –Publisher: Simon and Schuster – We meet Jamie on his morning commute on a Thames riverboat a few days after Christmas. As he disembarks, he is stopped…
Book review – The Pull of the Stars
Author: Emma Donohue –Publisher: Picador – I can’t recall how I chose this book. Maybe because the author also wrote Room, which I read a while ago and liked, although…
Book review – Don’t Cry, Dance: A Memoir of War, Love & Forgiveness
Author: Nina Angelo – Publisher: Sydney Jewish Museum – Nina Angelo is an OAM recipient for her Service to the Arts and the (NSW) Central Coast Community. She is a…
Book Review – All Adults Here
Author: Emma Straub –Publisher: Penguin Random House – I finished a book called Grown Ups a few weeks ago and now I’ve just read All Adults Here. Given the number…
Book Review – Friends and Strangers
Author: J. Courtney Sullivan – Publisher: Two Roads – Elisabeth and Andrew and their infant son, Gilbert have moved from Brooklyn to a college town in upstate New York. “Before…
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Author: Ocean Vuong.Publisher: Vintage. Ocean Vuong is a successful poet, so it is no wonder that he came up with such a lovely title for a book. Although it is…
The Glass Hotel – book review
Vincent and Paul are step sister and brother – same dad, different mothers. Vincent is an odd name for a girl, but her mum loved the poet, Edna St. Author:…
Book review – The Mercies
It is Christmas Eve in 1617 in Vardø, a small island located off the coast in north-eastern Norway. Author: Kiran Millwood Hargrave – Publisher: Pan McMillan UK Very north and…
Book Review – The Book of Longings
Ana is 14 and has grown up in a well to do household in Sepphoris (central Galilee).
Book Review – Hidden Valley Road (Inside the Mind of an American Family)
The Galvin family consist of Don, Mimi, Donald, Jim, John, Brian, Michael, Richard, Joe, Mark, Matt, Peter, Margaret, Mary. Author: Robert KolkerPublisher: Quercus Two parents, ten boys, two girls –…
Book Review – The Dictionary of Lost Words
Author: Pip WilliamsPublisher: Affirm Press The Dictionary of Lost Words is the debut novel by South Australian writer, pip Williams. It is set in Oxford from 1879 and based on…