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 Reviews
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…