Reviews

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,

Sumia Sukkar is a writer of Syrian Algerian origins and this is her debut novel. It is written, mainly, from

We know from the outset of the novel that Lizzie Fawkes, recently married so now Mrs Tredevant, is in mortal

Partly inspired by the stabbing of Damilola Taylor, Pigeon English is a story about an 11 year old Ghanaian boy,

The Racketeer is an intricately plotted book on the themes of a miscarriage of justice and the desire for revenge.

Winter in Madrid is set in 1940 during the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War with General Franco on the

This is a novel about the stories of five very different characters. There is a girl who flees from the

Hogarth Press invited 6 authors to write a novel based on plays by Shakespeare and Jo Nesbo re-imagined Macbeth set

Eric Newby, famous for his travel writing, wrote this account of his time as a prisoner of war, his escape,

Written in 1853, Villette was Charlotte Bronte’s final novel. It is based on her experience of teaching in Brussels. The

This story is deceptively simple. A retired man in Kingsbridge receives a letter from a colleague he has not been

The Wild Silence is a sequel to The Salt Path which half of our group had read. The first book

This novel follows the adolescent and early teenage years of Giovanna, a girl born to comfortably – off academic parents