Posts tagged book review

Boys boys boys, they are still a constant theme with our Bridget, but we have them ranging in age from her young son all the …

I have to admit, when I opened this book I expected to be greeted by a collection of beautifully woven, gentle, precise stories. But I …

When I started to listen to Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things, I thought it was a bit sad as I was expecting something to the likes …

To the unappreciative and disinterested eye, Anywhere’s Better Than Here might be just another work of modern Chick Lit – lining up to be drowned …

It is every weird girl’s most decadent fantasy – being carried off by the Prince of Darkness and fed caviar in banyas; hunting firebirds with …

A book about the Iraq War. A book about the Iraq War with a soldier draped in the United States flag on its cover. A …

When Stephen King thinks your novel is “genuinely scary” you must be doing something right. Author of five previous novels, Alice Thompson’s sixth – Burnt …

My belly and whole is being warmed by a Languedoc Viognier – peach, honeysuckle, perfect body – as I sit down to write a review …

Dynasties of the Sea delves into the fascinating dichotomy of the ancient maritime industry – traditional, yet always moving, always changing – and meets the …

The first time I saw The Shipping Man it was lying on a shipbroker’s bed and I had only recently discovered what a shipbroker was. …