I am introducing something new to my reviews! I am now going to include what I have termed “reader points” which will look like the below. At the beginning of a review I will give however many out of five which I hope makes for a quick spot of what I thought of the book. Continue reading Something new!
This book from Evans has three parts but for me it is a two part read, there is the first part that focuses on Evans offering his thoughts on things that matter to someone who is turning fifty as well as taking stock on his life and his past and then there is the second part which is his marathon diary and includes TFI Friday … Continue reading Call the Midlife – Chris Evans
This begins with a four year old girl, Nell, being found in Australia having been abandoned. Nell is taken in by Hugh and his wife Lil and does not discover the truth for many years. The book then spans between Australia and Cornwall and the past to the present in order to discover Nell’s origins and the terrible secrets at the heart of the Mountrachet … Continue reading The Forgotten Garden – Kate Morton
In this latest novel from Mitchell we find ourselves back in the world from ‘The Bone Clocks’ but this is essentially a stand-alone novel. Every nine years in October Slade House appears for one day and on this day a person is enticed to Slade Alley and through a small black iron door into Slade House. At first they do not want to leave and … Continue reading Slade House – David Mitchell
Sabrina finds herself on yet another monotonous daily routine, feeling not like herself and her family are away when she stumbles upon a possession of her father’s that she did not know he had, a marble collection and she decides to investigate this unknown side to her father in the spare day she has. This is told from Sabrina’s perspective as well as Fergus’ and … Continue reading The Marble Collector – Cecelia Ahern
In this honest autobiography Flack retells her life from her sheltered childhood in Norfolk with her twin sister through to her rise to fame as host of the X Factor. Included along the way are tales of her antics as a youth with her friends which provide for hilarious reading as well as her romantic relationships. Flack does not shy away from saying how things … Continue reading Storm In A C Cup – Caroline Flack
At the beginning of this year I set myself a target to read 50 books and review them afterwards. Well as I have just finished ‘A Man Called Ove’ I have now read 100 books this year and what a year of books it has been. There is still time to go, so I wonder what my final total will be!! Continue reading An achievement!
Ove is an old man with his peculiar ways who does not think he has much to live for. Ove is set in his ways with his inspections that have to be carried out and views on what the world should be like. However it soon becomes apparent that Ove is a man who has touched many lives even if he does not realise it … Continue reading A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
‘The Lake House’ is set in 2003 and the 1930s and flits between London and Cornwall. In 2003 Sadie is an excellent police officer going through professional difficulties and on enforced leave in Cornwall with her Granddad Bertie when she stumbles upon an old disappearance. Theo Edevane went missing from his family home in Cornwall when he was a toddler. Morton goes between Sadie’s fresh … Continue reading The Lake House – Kate Morton
‘Career of Evil’ sees the return of Strike and Robin once more in this third instalment in the Cormoran Strike series. This begins with a severed leg being anonymously sent to Robin, and then Strike reveals there are four possible men from his past that could have sent it and we get transported to his past to learn more about the suspects. Then as the … Continue reading Career of Evil – Robert Galbraith
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