BOOK Review – Dear Edward
Flight 2977 is scheduled to fly from Newark, New Jersey to Los Angeles on the morning of 12 June 2013. Author: Ann Napolitano Of the 192 passengers, four of them…
Book Reviews
BOOK Review – General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
John Maynard Keynes In the aftermath of the Great Crash of 1929, the Hoover administration did nothing. Not only was neo-Classical economics so confoundingly mathematical, but the laissez-faire economy was…
Book Review – The Communist Manifesto
In the 12 months following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, the best-selling book around the world was not Harry Potter or 50 Shades of Grey, but in fact…
BOOK Review
Crisis and Complexity: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of Economic and Financial Crisis:Author: Ross Barry These are unprecedented times as we keep hearing.So, while we would not normally…
BOOK Review – American Marriage
[Book review] Tayari Jones was sitting in a mall when she overheard a young couple arguing. Author: Tayari JonesPublisher: Random House Australia The woman said, “Roy, you know you wouldn’t…
When we Believed in Mermaids – BOOK Review
When we Believed in Mermaids The book’s blurb describes it as an “emotional new tale of two sisters, an ocean of lies, and a search for the truth.”Author: Barbara O’Neal…
BOOK Review – American Dirt
When I think of Acapulco I think of sun, beaches, resorts and the Love Boat (for those old enough to remember that show). Author: Jeanine CumminsPublisher: Tinder Press What I…
BOOK Review – The Silent Patient
Author: Alex MichaelidesPublisher: Hachette Alicia Berenson keeps a diary. She didn’t want to, but she was urged by Gabriel to write down her thoughts – Gabriel has sensed Alicia is…
BOOK Review – The Water Dancer
Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates Publisher: Penguin I chose to read The Water Dancer because it was on the New York Times best-seller list for fiction. It was also picked for Oprah’s…
BOOK Review ‘Less’
Author: Andrew Sean GreerPublisher: Lee Boudreaux/Little Brown and Company Less is the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winning satirical novel story about Arthur Less, a prim, slim, balding author who favours blue…
The Dutch House – book review
I’m a sucker for Ann Patchett. This is her eighth novel and the fourth one I have read (my favourite is State of Wonder). The Dutch House is as a…
The Giver of Stars
[Book Review] I’m on a decline with JoJo Moyes. I loved Me Before You, but I only liked the sequel After You. I then wasn’t sure at all about her…
Book review – The Weekend
Title: The Weekend – Author: Charlotte Wood – Publisher: Allen & Unwin – Reviewed by: Kim Reardon Three friends come together for a weekend to clean out the beach house…
Motherless Brooklyn – book review
Author: Johnathan Lethem Publisher: Faber & Faber I read this book some time ago, but it has since been made into a major motion picture with an all-star cast led…
Boy Swallows Universe – Book Review
Boy Swallows Universe is a multiple award-winning novel about Eli Bell, a young boy growing up in 1983 in Darra, on the outskirts of Brisbane. Eli lives with his mute…
Book Review: Our House
As part of the new-look Coast Community News, we are introducing book reviews! We put out our feelers recently for a book reviewer and received such an enthusiastic response from…