Book Reviews

26 November 2012

Book Review: The Taint of Midas by Anne Zouroudi

Set in modern-day Greece, Zouroudi has created a dreamy masterpiece in her latest crime novel The Taint of Midas. Gabrilis Kaloyeros, a humble and ageing beekeeper, is killed in a ...
19 November 2012

Book review: A Family Affair by Mary Campisi

I came across this warm yet intriguing novel as a freebie on Kindle. The book has the meaning of ‘family’ as its premise: can we choose our family or is ...

13 November 2012

Book Review: Tuesday’s with Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson.

I was first introduced to this book a few weeks ago when a friend of mine bought it on the off-chance during a trip he was taking. I bought the ...

18 October 2012

The Saturday Supper Club Review

Wanted: Four amateur cooks to compete in a supper-club contest Rules: Four strangers, four weeks, four houses, four dinner parties. You might win: a cash prize. You might lose: your heart.   Eve had ...

18 October 2012

The Blind Assassin Review

Family secrets can date back generations and feelings of resentment can be carried over decades.   Iris Griffin is an elderly lady who is aware, that her time is coming to an ...

17 October 2012

Making It Big Review

Sharon is a little bigger than most women and so is very insecure about her weight next to her thin friend and work colleagues. She believes that the guy she ...

8 June 2012

Dan Smith's, The Child Thief: Review

  A little girl is then taken from the village and it is up to Luka and his sons to find her and bring her home. But the little girl is ...

8 June 2012

I heart London by Lindsey Kelk: Review

  I heart London fits the bill and this is good, it is worth reading on a long commute or if the sun is shining and you fancy having a relaxing ...

23 May 2012

Guillaume Musso's 'The girl on paper' review

So when I picked up this book in the office, having trawled through a rather large pile labelled ‘UNREVIEWED’ I didn’t hold much hope. I read the back and thought ...
19 April 2012

The Kingdom Of Childhood By Rebecca Coleman

Synopsis:You’ve fallen for your son’s best friend. You are a teacher. You are abusing your power, your responsibility…your student. You know it’s wrong but you cannot stop. A love story. ...

18 April 2012

The Girl On Paper: Guillaume Musso

Synopsis:Just a few months ago, Tom Boyd was a multi-million selling author, in love with a world-famous pianist. But after a very public break-up, he can’t write anymore, and is ...
17 April 2012

Mad About The Boy: Kath Drummond

Synopsis:Adam Olsen has it all- charm, charisma, Number One hits and hordes of adoring fans. He also has a long-term girlfriends who has been with him since his penniless days, ...

16 April 2012

The Fame Game: Lauren Conrad

Synopsis:In Hollywood, fame can be found on every corner and behind any door. You just have to know where to look for it. Nineteen-year-old Madison Parker made a name for ...
16 April 2012

Confessions of an Essex Girl: Becci Fox

Synopsis:‘So you think because you’ve watched TOWIE you’ve got us Essex girls figured out? You don’t know the half of it. Events in this book are so shameless that I’ve ...

16 April 2012

Confessions of an Essex Girl: Becci Fox

Synopsis:‘So you think because you’ve watched TOWIE you’ve got us Essex girls figured out? You don’t know the half of it. Events in this book are so shameless that I’ve ...

15 December 2011

Top seven cookery books

Even though there’s only ten days left until Christmas, it’s more than likely that some of us still have a bit of last minute shopping to do, or in some ...
21 September 2011

Book Review Jokes For Blokes

Jokes for Blokes: Totally not 'PC', offensive in the extreme, rude, crude and downright dirty. Jokes For Blokes is best not read aloud in mixed company. That said the book ...

20 September 2011

Reviews Accabadora Michela Murgia

Synopsis: Formerly beautiful and at one time betrothed to a fallen soldier, Bonaria Urrai has long held covenant with the dead. Midwife to the dying, easing their suffering and sometimes ...

20 September 2011

Review My Kind Of Cooking Mark Sargeant

Synopsis: My kind of cooking is Mark Sargeant's exciting introduction to food that few people usually consider, or have the confidence to cook. It is also a very personal book ...

20 September 2011

Review: Innocence Lost Vivienne Dockerty

Growing up in the Dockerty household in the austere years after World War Two, with a father who reigned supreme as head of the household and a mother who was ...

27 July 2011

The Breakers

Synopsis: In the storm-swept landscapes of Normandy's coastline lies a village that might just be at the ends of the earth. A woman has recently arrived to seek healing for ...

19 January 2011

Review: Belle by Lesley Pearse

Belle was raised in a brothel in London but despite her innocence being protected from the "activities upstairs", it's shattered when she witnesses a murder. She is snatched and sold ...

18 January 2011

Review: The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy

The book focuses on Maya, who is trying to overcome her past and embark on the future, but with India's conflicting troubles threatening the small town she lives in, she ...
14 January 2011

Review: Wartime Notebooks by Marguerite Duras

The notebooks are that of the author's which were discovered, exploring the life Duras endured from her difficult childhood to "her harrowing wait for her husband's return from internment." They were ...