Atonement is, as the title suggests, a book about redemption and coming to terms with the past and atoning for past transgressions but more than that, Melissa Ingoldsby’s book is about love and its power to restore and heal, through affection and reassurance and consistency. It starts excitingly with two men, Edward and John, onContinue reading “Atonement by Melissa Ingoldsby”
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The Axeman’s Jazz by Ray Celestin
New Orleans: a city of mob and racial tension and now, there’s a serial killer on the loose in this well-written thriller
Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney
This book was a pleasant surprise, a study of characters and relationships with a literary bent
The Serial Killer’s Wife by Alice Hunter
An original book with a surprising ending which failed to set this reader alight
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
A book about people and the injustices that are served and the battle to conquer them
Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce
A tale of friendship, reconciliation with the past, and adventure, with two unlikely women searching for a beetle on the other side of the world
What News on the Rialto? by Anthony Wildman
Anyone for Venice at the time of Shakespeare with Shakespeare himself as your eyes there? Well, it worked for me!
The Fool’s Tale by Nicole Galland
An historical fiction book, loosely based on Welsh history, which tells a story of politics, love and the ties that bind
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
There are exploits; I’m not sure how glorious they are but this book doesn’t need glory to make it a triumph
Ruby by Jack Heape
A heart-warming story of friendship between a show dog called Ruby, her handler, Toby and a reclusive epileptic girl called Rachel
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