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Miss Garnet’s Angel by Salley Vickers The book contains two stories running in parallel, linked by the Angel Raphael. In one, Julia Garnet comes to Venice and gradually transforms from a lonely spinster, to become a sociable retired lady. The transformation is brought about by her growing love of Venice and its art, and her friendship with a variety […]
» Read moreEducated by Tara Westover Tara was raised in a Mormon survivalist home in rural Idaho. The book is a memoir of her life within this family and how she escaped to become ‘educated’. Tara and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but according to the government she didn’t exist. She hadn’t been registered for a […]
» Read moreTombland by C J Sansom This is the seventh novel in the series featuring the lawyer, Matthew Shardlake. Set in the summer of 1584, Tombland weaves a murder mystery around the Kett uprising in East Anglia. John Boleyn is accused of murdering his wife Edith so the Lady Elizabeth (Queen to be) takes an interest in the case leading to […]
» Read moreNutshell – By Ian Mcewan Nutshell is the 14th novel by Ian McEwan and tells a story of murder and deceit: told by the most unlikely narrator, an eavesdropping foetus. It’s an unusual and very different book which divided opinion amongst the Page Turners. Some thought it was bizarre, with McEwan trying too hard to be clever; others thought it […]
» Read more‘Under A Pole Star’. by Stef Penney This book is centred around the two main characters, Flora Mackie and Jakob de Beyn. We are first introduced to Flora, an elderly explorer known as the Ice Queen, as she prepares to return to Greenland in the year 1948. A reporter, accompanying the group, questions her about the fate of de Beyn […]
» Read moreSebastian Barry -Days Without End The novel is narrated by Thomas McNulty, an Irish emigrant who flees to Canada and then America to escape the Great Famine. In America he befriends John Cole and the two form a close relationship, working first, as young boys, cross-dressing entertainers and then enlisting in the army and taking part in both the Indian […]
» Read moreLocal author, Cathy Farr is hosting another Creative Writing Day on 10th July in Dinas Powys. Following the success of previous workshops over the last two years, Cathy will be welcoming budding writers to spend the day enjoying a host of practical writing activities that really will get those creative muscles going. The sessions are inspired by the workshops and […]
» Read moreThose of us who gathered to hear the harrowing accounts of Ron Jones’ experience during World War II, would agree, that it was a privilege. This gentle man and natural story teller had seen and suffered things that no person should ever experience when he was taken Prisoner of War in January 1942 and kept in Auschwitz for two years. […]
» Read moreThis month, we each reviewed a book of our own choice that we had enjoyed. ‘The tattooist of Auschwitz’ by Heather Morris. This book is based on the real life of Lale Sokkolov a survivor of Auschwitz, interviewed by Heather Morris. It is the love story of Lale and Gita, who met in the concentration camp. Lale’s role as […]
» Read moreTHE SECRET PLACE by Tana French This book is fifth in the Dublin Murder Squad series and although some of the characters can be found in previous novels, it can be read as a stand alone. Following the unsuccessful investigation into the murder of a teenage boy, Chris Harper, in the grounds of St.Kilda’s School for Girls on the […]
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