Book Review – Page 9 – Scuffed Granny

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

A book about life, regrets and choices which has humour and warmth and prompts discussion about how life can best be lived

A book for our times, Mad Honey is a story of people, divisions, assumptions and wrong perceptions, with a murder trial at the centre of it

A wonderful book compiled from a collection of letters, depicting the time Isabella Bird spent in the Rockies in the 1800s

Imogen is surprised when she is approached by Lila, daughter of a famous MP, at a gig: it’s exciting and unexpected but is it a good thing?

A truly original story which gives a “curse” cognitive function and personality as it tries to survive in the face of its enemies

Police thriller set in Rome with engaging characters, sharp dialogue and lots of action-a modern thriller but filled with echoes of the past

Friends perform a ritual, entering their treasured items into a box buried in the woods. It must remain undisturbed or… So who opened it?

Suzie suffers from schizophrenia and when this starts to drag her life into darker realms, we go with Landt’s narrative to the Mole People

Why doesn’t Lena want to go home to Possett, Alabama? A book which explores the past, growing up, rites of passage and the ties that bind

Malouf retells, in his own words but with the air of the original Homer, the story of Priam and Achilles and the ransom for Hector’s body