Reviews

The book is set in a small Swiss town and is structured, like a sonata, in three parts covering the

In 1922 Moscow, Count Alexander Rostov a wealthy aristocrat aged 32 is charged with being a “Social Parasite” and placed

The Siege is an in-depth, extensively researched account of the six day siege at the Iranian embassy in 1980. It is a non-fiction

This is the story of Katherine Plantagenet, one of the seven children of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. She is

The book begins with a strange occurrence on a domestic flight from Tasmania to Sydney. A completely normal seeming grey-haired

Sea of Poppies is initially set in the opium poppy growing region of India in 1837 just before the Opium

This is a true story in the form of a novel about a miscarriage of justice. In Tiger Bay in

In an excellent interview with Andrea Levy at the end of the book (we wished that we had read this

Peter Byerly, an antiquarian book dealer, is a young American widower trying to piece his life back together after the

Less is a comic novel in which the protagonist Arthur Less, a moderately successful writer, is facing a mid-life crisis

Our book choice for this month was a work of non-fiction relating a year in the life of a female

Margaret Forster took her inspiration from a series of paintings by Post-Impressionist artist Gwen John (1876-1939). Deceptively simple, these small

This novel tells the story of Lotta Rae who, in 1906, aged 19 is raped at her workplace by one

Jenny Balfour Paul has successfully combined her love of travel, starting with following the hippy trails in her late teens,with

The Nightingale is set in a small town in France during the German occupation in WW2 and is related through

Our latest book choice, The Bees,  was a volume of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy, our first woman Poet Laureate

Christy Lefteri wrote The Beekeeper of Aleppo inspired by her experience of volunteering in refugee camps in Athens. The story

When God was a Rabbit tells the story of a close-knit family and their friends from the viewpoint of Elly

The Noise of Time is a fictionalised biography of Dmitry Shostakovich and his struggle to continue to compose under Stalin’s

The story opens with a little girl, Abeo Kata living a comfortable, happy life in West Africa with her father,