book reviews

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

Our book for January was ‘Good Girl, Bad Girl’ by Michael Robotham. The author is an investigative journalist and writer

The Moonstone, published in 1868, is regarded as the first modern detective story. The Moonstone concerns the theft of a

Our October choice was After the Fall by Charity Norman. In New Zealand a small boy has fallen from a

This book, which was awarded The Pulitzer Prize, is a story of a man’s transformation of identity and self acceptance.

This author was previously completely unknown to our group, but was chosen by one member who heard a dramatization of

Our December Book was “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Husseini. The writer is a brilliant storyteller and portrays his

During the first lockdown our Group continued to partially receive our Monthly book selection from Devon Libraries, and we kept

This book is brilliantly written by acclaimed author, Kate Mosse. The theme is centred on the results of male grief

This  the author’s  first book wanted the main character to be at least 100 years old in order to have

This month’s book by Anne Tyler was welcomed by the group. Margaret was unable to attend our meeting but wrote

This book was a translation from French by Sandra Smith. It is the story of a husband and wife who

This month’s book certainly produced some lively and thought provoking comments from the group. It is described as an “American

Mesmerizing is probably a clear definition as how our Group described this book. The story begins in 1952 Afghanistan introducing

This is a story of historical fiction in the 1920s. The main character is Ellie who was born in a

“The Sellout” is an acerbic imaginative satire to challenge thinking on political  correctness, radical identity, the legacy of slavery, civil

This book has won many awards for the author Mark Haddon, both for Literature and in the theatre in London