Book Review - Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
Notes on an execution is a superb literary thriller about a serial killer on death row, his story largely told by the women in his life.
Book Review - Moonflower Murders - Anthony Horowitz
Another successful outing for Susan Ryeland and Atticus Pünd, in a follow up to the acclaimed ‘Magpie Murders.’ With two detective stories for the price of one, it feels like a tribute to the classics of the genre. Complex and labyrinth, this is hugely enjoyable.
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
A classic for good reason, this gothic psychological thriller has stood the test of time.
Book Review - The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel tells the story of a Native American tribe via a varied cast of characters and their fight to resist eviction from their ancestral homeland, and the problems they faced during the 1950’s.
Book Review-Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is an wonderfully immersive work of fantasy, set inside a world of halls and vestibules, water and statues, that soon grabs you with its strangeness. Wonderfully compelling.
Book Review - Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
It seems that everyone has read Shuggie Bain by now so I thought it was about time I posted my review on an incredibly immersive novel that is gritty and depressing, but also about survival and love.
Book Review - Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
Ishiguro’s dystopian novel about a Artificial Friend called Klara is beautifully written, as you’d expect, but is it up there with previous books by the Nobel Prize winning author?
Book Review - Hidden Valley Road - Inside the mind of an American Family-Robert Kolker
The harrowing and enthralling story of the Galvins, a family of twelve children brought up in Colorado, six of whom went on to develop schizophrenia. This is their story, about how it affected their family and the contribution they made to sciences understanding of the disease.
Book Review - Leonard and Hungry Paul - Rónán Hession
Rónán Hessions debut novel is a warm hearted read about two thirty something friends relatively happy in their own skins, getting on with their lives. But with a love interest, an upcoming wedding and an unexpected windfall, things begin to change……
Book review - The Nothing Man - Catherine Ryan Howard
Superior Irish thriller about a survivor who decides after 18 years that she wants to hunt for the serial killer who murdered her family.
Book Review - The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
The story of two twin sisters born in the strange town of Mallard, with its own system of racial purity. They escape, but their lives take two very different courses.
Book Review - Five Little Indians - Michelle Good
Five First Nation children and how they survive in the years after they have been released from the Canadian residential school system.
