Book Review
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 Reviews
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…
Book Review – A Gentleman in Moscow
Author: Amor Towles Publisher: Penguin – Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, a recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, has been sentenced to spend the rest of his days in house…
Who is the Reluctant Book Critic?
Have you ever wondered who it is hiding behind this book? Well, in case you missed the introduction of our Book Reviews at the beginning of this year, it all…