Book Review – Scuffed Granny

Frances Finkel and the Passenger Pigeon by D. M. Mahoney

A nice, heart-warming read about teenager Frances Finkel and her yearning to become a fighter plane pilot in the Second World War

The strength of this book lies in the power of Colin Dodds’ prose – a curious tale of resurrection, religion, and blighted friendship

A tale of a frontier town and the promise offered by gold prospecting – dark, threatening and thrilling, and excellently told

A stimulating, thoughtful memoir about a young girl who enters a controversial church at its height and how this shaped her life and faith

A reflection on a childhood in Africa at the end of empire and how that has inexorably shaped the author into the man he was and is now

An easy read of a murder mystery featuring a French journalist and an ancient artefact

A book very much of our times, A.I. Fabler’s novel starts as a search for the truth about a copied painting but becomes much more

A collection of poems, heartfelt and honest, written by a man caring for his elderly parents, one of whom, his father, has dementia

Not a bad first effort from a new author about two young people, unhappy with life who are given a second chance

One farmer’s fight to preserve the land that his family has farmed for generations is a story of the little man versus the power of money