In Memory Of The Six Million Always Remember Your Name by Andra and Tatiana Bucci, translated by Ann Goldstein is a powerful true account of the sisters’ survival as children in Auschwitz. Tatiana was born in 1937 and Andra in 1939 to Catholic Jewish parents in Italy. They entered Auschwitz with their mother on April […]

Serenely Beautiful And Soothing Rabbit And Bear Make A Wish by Tara Shannon is the most beautiful and heartfelt book that will cause you to pause and reflect on what is most important in life. The book has always been a dream of the author’s and arose from grief. Rabbit questions the world, whilst Bear […]

Timeless Beauty The Memory Garden by Rachel Hore is a delightful dual timeline novel set about 1914 and 2007 in Cornwall. Both time periods are linked by a house and garden, and a love of painting. In present day there is a research project into the painters of Newlyn. In the past we meet some […]

Wartime Life Perfectly Captured The War Girls Of Goodwill House by Fenella J Miller is a marvellous historical novel set at the beginning of World War II. War brings changes. Large traditional family homes need to be used to accommodate those in the services. Cold, empty mansions spring back to life in the midst of […]

Never Too Old The Age Of Misadventure by Judy Leigh is a really fun contemporary novel, delightfully composed that had me laughing out loud throughout – not one to read in public! The novel is about family and female companionship. Normal but isolated lives are suddenly interrupted as an eighty eight year old accompanies her […]

Wow – So Powerful Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult is a powerful contemporary novel opening in March 2020 and moving forwards as the world dealt with the COVID pandemic. Jodi Picoult focuses in on a couple, who are a microcosm for the experiences of many. Living in New York City, a doctor finds […]

Deliciously Fun Winging It by Emma Murray is a light-hearted contemporary novel about life and motherhood. It has a wonderful fun tone juxta posed with some serious topics. The majority of the novel is set in America as the reader witnesses the loneliness of high rise living in New York City. The city seems noisy, […]

A Wonderful Conclusion Old Friends New Friends by Margaret Thornton is a wonderful conclusion to the fabulous Yorkshire Saga series. The novel is set in 1970 mainly in Leeds but also in the small Dales town (that looks like Reeth to me on the cover). Once more we see the value in good friends who […]

For Such A Time As This Families And Friendships by Margaret Thornton is the second book in the Yorkshire Saga series. It is wonderfully warm and welcoming as the reader travels through the 1960’s with the characters. Once more we are delighted by the goings-on in the small Dales town (the cover still looks like […]

Delightful Cast The First Stone by Margaret Thornton is a marvellous historical novel and the first book in the Yorkshire Saga series which promises to be fantastic. The novel is set in the 1960’s in a small Dales community (it looks like Reeth to me on the cover). The tale also projects backwards to Leeds […]