I have a real dose of the last lines blues. I loved this one. It made a tough work-week easier because I could race home at night and just throw myself back into it. It was one of those rare beauties. Rachel Joyce has a special place in my book-loving being because her story The […]
Tag Archives: fiction
September
21
All that I Am by Anna Funder
posted by Ms K
Reading this book, against the current global political backdrop, hits you in all the places. In one breath you think how far we have come as people. In the next breath, you’re winded by your despair. It is chilling when you really let yourself go to places where the horrors of war and treachery are […]
August
10
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
posted by Ms K
Prepare to have your heart broken by John Boyne. This book tells one of the most brutal, gut-wrenching stories I have read. Ever. Ever. But before you start to find the ‘escape’ button on your device to click out of this review, S T O P, because this book is also one of the most […]
July
03
The Long Walk by Stephen King
posted by Ms A
Last month, I took a break from contemporary, literary fiction for a dose of dystopian horror in form of vintage Stephen King. Yes, this book snob read a Stephen King book…and loved every page of it. The Long Walk was not the first of Stephen King’s novels to be published, but it was the first […]
June
30
Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
posted by Ms A
It’s a rare book that can be both a guide to the sudden loss of a spouse and a genuinely enjoyable read, but Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks does just that. With a protective wink, my neighbour and dear friend, slipped me her copy wanting to make sure I had the benefit of any pre-planning […]
March
17
The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden
posted by Ms A
I fell in love with this book the moment I saw it. A small, dusty pink hardback, perched elegantly on the shelf at Glee Books. I took my copy to the counter and the cashier gave me a knowing nod as if I had stumbled onto Chanel at the local Vinnies. I walked home clutching […]
January
27
The Granddaughter by Bernhard Schlink
posted by Ms K
Happy 2025 Readheads. Good news is I’ve already read two books this month so am feeling chuffed with myself. Bad news (for me) is the hefty pile of books read last year which are not yet reviewed. They taunt me on the daily, but I am committed to sorting out this disaster lickety split, so […]
January
09
All Fours by Miranda July
posted by Ms A
Hold the HRT for this wild and wonderful window into the menopausal mind. In All Fours, a 45-year-old artist, wife and mother is planning a solo road trip from LA to NY for work. With a determination to prove to herself that she’s a steady and reliable person (and not the loose cannon she is […]
May
15
What Happened to Nina by Dervla McTiernan
posted by Ms K
Having read this, I know what happened to Nina. I won’t tell you of course, but good news for you is that you don’t have to wait till the end of the book to find out if you do read it (and I think you should….all the bookshops clearly agree as they’ve got this one […]
April
25
Until August by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
posted by Ms A
Gabriel Garcia Márquez, the Colombian, Nobel Prize winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude, died in Mexico City in 2014. He had started work on Until August many years before but, with the onset of dementia, decided it wasn’t worthy of publishing and asked that it be […]
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