‘Why Mummy Drinks’ by Gill Sims
I had been saving this up as a bit of light relief after some of our recent Book Club reads and it was therefore the perfect choice for the […]
I had been saving this up as a bit of light relief after some of our recent Book Club reads and it was therefore the perfect choice for the […]
Although 20 years ago, I clearly remember discovering Arundhati Roy’s ‘The God of Small Things’ whilst browsing in Waterstones in Covent Garden. I knew nothing about it, or that […]
A visit to the Burgh Island Hotel would not be complete without a volume of an Agatha Christie novel in hand. Agatha Christie was a regular visit to the […]
Before I even opened ‘Three Daughters of Eve’ I was struck by what an aesthetically beautiful book it was. The dust jacket design is striking in it’s use of […]
It seems that all things Minecraft are taking over my house. With its Creative and Survival worlds created with the sole use of electronic textured cuboid building blocks it […]
2016 marked the 50th anniversary of this classic American novel, as well as sadly, the death of its author, Harper Lee. It is a book that somehow has passed […]
A few days away in a beach chalet on the north Cornish coast called for a ‘holiday read’. Paula Hawkins’ ‘The Girl on the Train’ caught my attention as […]
The second choice in our children’s fiction category was the classic ‘Swallows and Amazons’. With a major feature film on release at the moment a few of us confessed […]
Our next category was children’s fiction and we were spoilt for choice with many wonderful suggestions for classics we were keen to re-read and others that we had somehow […]
The category for our third Book Group read was historical fiction and, surprisingly, we struggled to find a title that none of us had read and we could all […]
I was excited to receive my copy of ‘Across Many Mountains’ in the post this weekend which is the second title selected by our newly formed Book Group. A […]
It was with trepidation that I sounded out a few friends about the possibility of setting up a Book Group in the village and was rather overwhelmed with the […]