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It's difficult to talk about this book to someone who hasn’t
read it, because the less you know about the story – the better! Rosemary is at
college and has an unhappy family. Her
scientist parents try to present them all as close-knit, but the truth is - she
has not seen her brother for 11 years or her sister since she was five. Not
that she would talk to anyone about it, she’s a pretty quiet person. That’s all
that I will tell you for now, but you’ll find out more on page 77.
This story is full of all the things a good book is made of.
Compelling characters, a big plot twist, wonderfully funny dialogue and ethical
dilemmas. For fans of Barbara Kingsolver, Ann Patchett, Sara Gruen and Ruth
Ozeki. I think this would be an excellent book club read.
The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry features a grumpy, widowed bookstore
owner, an unlucky-in-love publisher's sales representative, an
abandoned baby who lands in the luckiest situation ever, and a cast of
other characters with a capital C in a quiet New England island
community. When Amelia, a leaf-green sales representative for
Pterodactyl Press, and heartbroken bookseller AJ fail to make a good
impresion on one another, a valuable Edgar Allen Poe first edition
goes missing, and a baby is left with a note in an empty shop, the
troubled inhabitants of Alice Island are set upon an unlikely course
towards a redemption of sorts. Fans of The Guernsey Literary and
Potato Peel Pie Society, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand and The Uncommon
Reader, not to mention anyone with a soft spot for books about
readers, will love this at times heart-wrenching, but ultimately
uplifting, little book.
The latest in French literary crime series The Three Evangelists to betranslated. It all starts with that very Parisian phenomenon, dog
waste on the pavement. Deeply eccentric ex-special investigator, Louis
Kehwieler, happens to note a fragment of bone in one of these leavings
and just like that, the game's afoot. The book might just as well have
been titled 'like a dog with a bone', as Kehlwieler's behaviour while
searching for a body no-one has missed, in search of a mystery nobody
cares to solve, certainly fits that description. Historian,
archeologist and crime novelist Fred Vargas brings her usual mix of
the cerebral and whimsical, along with a wicked sense of humour and a
light touch, to this tale of murder and intrigue. Blending the
personal with the political and philosophical, Dog Will Have His Day
is bound to delight readers of authors as diverse as John le Carré and
Alexander McCall Smith.
Time Out's Old Favourite:
Prep is a quiet book that sits among the shelves, which one
would only pick up if one was recommended. I think this is because it has one
of the ugliest covers I have ever seen. However, it was the two cover quotes
that drew me to read this: "The OC
meets The Secret History with flashes of Clueless" and, "Sweet Valley High meets George Eliot."
This story follows the very observant 14 year old Lee over 4
years at boarding school. It’s a time where not much happens, but everything
happens. This book is described by the publisher as being a “singular portrait
of the universal pains and thrills of adolescence,” and it definitely is. Lee’s
teenage experiences are so reminiscent that it gave me chills.
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