Starting The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer I wasn’t sure what to expect. I’d never watched Shooting Stars or The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer. However, I like Bob Mortimer’s quirky sense of humour from watching the delightful Gone Fishing series multiple times. And I (like vast swathes of the public) laugh at his retelling […]
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I picked up the House at Riverton by Kate Morton and flipped to the back cover. The very bottom line stated ‘one of the most successful debuts of all time’ – now that’s a way to get my attention. Coming in at almost six hundred pages, this was going to be a significant investment of
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In this The Memory Garden by Rachel Hore review, I’m going to say straightaway that I had very high expectations. I loved A Week in Paris and hoped for more of the same. I wasn’t disappointed. Rachel delivers another knockout book. Again, it goes between two time periods. This time modern day and a hundred
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Bothy Tales by John D. Burns is a short collection of stories based on his adventures in the Scottish hills and made the TGO magazine shortlist for Outdoor Book of the Year. If you’re looking for inspiration to get out and about then this book is definitely worth a read with its engaging, down-to-earth and
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Daylight by David Baldacci is my first book review of 2024. I wanted to kick the year off to a great start with an author guaranteed to deliver a fast-paced, rollercoaster action read. David Baldacci is not touted as one of the greatest thriller writers in the world for nothing. I do love the crime
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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katrina Bivald was my final read of 2023. And by that, I mean I finished the last page with less than an hour before the bells rang in 2024. For me, winter is a time for bracing walks and then with glowing cheeks, retreat indoors to snuggle up
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I’m not one for dark novels but after reading How To Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie my annual tally stands at two. Hardly remarkable if I’d read one hundred books but as it’s only my fifteenth this year, that’s more noteworthy. Are my tastes changing? Or is it a case of spacing them out
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Americanah by Chimamanda Ngezi Adichie is a novel that weaves in multiple countries, characters and love stories. It starts when our protagonist Ifemelu heads to a Trenton braiding salon. After thirteen years (she tells the braider it’s fifteen) of building a successful slice of the American Dream, the pull of home is too strong. Ifemelu
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Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine, thank you very much. She doesn’t like to deviate from routine and remains in the same company, doing the same finance job for eight years. Afterwards, she goes home and waits for the next working day. Every Wednesday evening is a fifteen-minute phone call from Mummy and at the weekend
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Alison is an ambitious barrister. She’s worked tirelessly and sacrificed plenty over the years. To attain her goal. It’s the one thing she’s been working towards her whole legal career – to defend a murder case. To represent Madeleine, a well-heeled, immaculately presented woman who freely admits to repeatedly stabbing her husband to death with
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