‘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 […]
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‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’ by Arundhati Roy
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 […]
‘Evil Under the Sun’ by Agatha Christie
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 […]
‘The Elementia Chronicles’ by Sean Fay Wolfe
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 […]
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee
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 […]
‘The Girl on the Train’ by Paula Hawkins
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 […]
‘Swallows and Amazons’ by Arthur Ransome
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 […]
‘The Little Prince’ by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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 […]
‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ by Betty Smith
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 […]
‘Across Many Mountains’ by Yangzom Brauen
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 […]
‘Us’ by David Nicolls
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 […]