Reviews of Books
Posted in Fiction, Recommended on Apr 27th, 2012
I grabbed this book off the return shelves at the library. I was drawn to the cover and I am glad because I really enjoyed it and I have gone on to buy Brother of the more Famous Jack. Here is the blurb … Christina and Pam are sisters less than a year apart in age. [...]
Posted in Fiction, Recommended on Apr 12th, 2012
My girls’ school had their Anzac service on the last day of term, which made me think about Rilla of Ingleside. This novel is the last in the Anne of Green Gables series (although now that The Blythes Are Quoted is published I should say second last) and it is set during World War 1. It [...]
Posted in Fiction - Light on Apr 11th, 2012
Another Katie Fforde offering. Here is the blurb… Take one aspiring cook, one judge, and a spoonful of romance… When Zoe Harper wins a coveted place in a televised cookery competition she’s thrilled. It’s a chance to cook her way to fame and fortune and the little delicatessen she’s set her heart on. The first [...]
Posted in Fiction, Recommended on Apr 10th, 2012
I had never heard of this book until it was selected for book club – quite a pleasant surprise. Here’s the blurb … Vida Winter, a bestselling yet reclusive novelist, has created many outlandish life histories for herself, all of them invention. Now old and ailing, at last she wants to tell the truth about [...]
Posted in Fiction, Recommended on Apr 5th, 2012
I love Trollope’s writing and luckily for me he was a prolific author (I think he wrote 47 novels). Here is the synopsis from Wikipedia… The Warden concerns Mr Septimus Harding, the meek, elderly warden of Hiram’s Hospital and precentor of Barchester Cathedral, at the fictional location of Barsetshire. Hiram’s Hospital is an almshouse supported [...]