16 Thursday Jul 2015
Posted in Fiction, Literary Fiction, Reading
It’s release day for this wonderful prize-winning novel by first time Canadian author Sean Michaels. A book about music, politics, love and science. This is definitely one of my books of the year. Here is my original review, written after receiving it as an ARC from NetGalley in digital form
18 Thursday Jun 2015
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Book Review, Crime Fiction, Katarina Bivald, Publication Day, The readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
It’s publication day for Swedish author Katarina Bivald’s charming, romantic, quirky bookie inspired comedy (Scandi Rom-Com!)- though it is set in Iowa – The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend. The link is to my original review
With definite debts to 84 Charing Cross Road, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and Armistead Maupin’s books. this is a light-hearted, feel-good read, and its author’s (and central character’s) love of reading, lift it above JUST a light hearted romp. It’s a delight
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend Amazon UK
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend Amazon USA
18 Thursday Jun 2015
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Today sees the publication of Rebecca Mascull’s intriguing, enthralling story of a (fictional) female scientist in the middle of the eighteenth century.
Song of The Sea Maid is both a cracking good read, and provokes a lot of thought and useful questions. The link is to my original review and also to a Q + A I did with the author as part of a blog tour this week What is fascinating is that though Mascull’s central character, Dawnay Price, is ‘invention’, there were more women who served as her model, at that time, than one would suppose.
A book ‘about stuff’ which is also a compulsive page turner
Not a Q + A with Rebecca, but still part of the blog tour for the book, is a fascinating post which Books By Women, a site devoted to women writers asked her to write about prehistoric woman.
Song of the Sea Maid Amazon UK
Song of the Sea Maid Amazon USA
04 Thursday Jun 2015
Posted in Fiction, Literary Fiction, Reading
Today sees the UK publication of Simon Mawer’s thoughtful sequel to The Girl Who Fell From The Sky (published as Trapeze in the States) The sequel can be read as a stand-alone, for sure as Marian Sutro, his central character, does have some of her back-story revealed in Tightrope. The first book told the story of Special Operations Executives (SOE) parachuted into France to aid the Resistance in the Second World War. The war has ended, the Cold War is…hotting up, and Sutro is coming to terms with living in a much less adrenaline rush world,
Here is the original review I posted for Tightrope
Tightrope Amazon UK
Tightrope Amazon USA
Sorry Statesiders, I believe you may have some months to wait before the book reaches your shores
06 Thursday Nov 2014
It’s release day for Margaret Forster’s interesting and informative autobiography of a life told through the houses she lived in, which is as much a history of the times as a recount of her specific life within these times Here is my original review, written after receiving it as an ARC from NetGalley in digital form
06 Monday Oct 2014
Posted in Fiction, Literary Fiction, Reading, SF
Here is a strange, challenging and enjoyable new thing of a book by Michel Faber, very different from his much loved The Crimson Petal and The White.
Here is my original review, written back in July after receiving it as an ARC from NetGalley in digital format
The Book Of Strange New Things Amazon UK
The Book Of Strange New Things Amazon USA
22 Thursday May 2014
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Book Review, Nathan Penlington, Performance, Publication Day, The Boy In The Book, Theatrical Event
It’s release day for this charming, quirky, feel-good true account of a search inspired by jottings found in a second hand book.
This is for all of you who love second hand books in part for the lure and mystery of the lives of their previous owner(s)
It’s an enchanting, very funny, wryly observed book and I found it an utter delight
Here is my original review written last month after receiving it as an ARC from NetGalley in digital form
The Boy In The Book Amazon UK
The Boy In The Book Amazon USA
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