by Ian Livingstone (Wizard Books) ISBN: 9781848311237 Now I seem to remember Ian Livingston. Where from? I’m not sure but I think he wrote bad fiction when I was growing up. You know Goosebumps style children’s books that come out once a month and have numbers rather than names. So I was not expecting much […]
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Stories of the Vineyards in South Africa. By Jeanne Viall, Wilmot James & Jakes Gerwel (Tafelberg) ISBN 978-0-624-04938-8 What helps grapes to grow? The Cape Doctor. Why do grapes grow in a selected area? What is the difference between table grapes and wine grapes? All your questions are answered in this wonderful book about making
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by Joanne Jowell (Macmillan) ISBN 978-1-77010-131-9 Finding Sarah is about the eating disorder Bulimia. This is a compelling and comprehensive story. The author writes about Sarah and how her life is profoundly changed by the disease. The reader is taken on a journey from when Sarah was a young girl until the present time. We
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by Natasha Solomons (Sceptre) ISBN 978-0-340-99568-6 Elsa Landau flees from Vienna to become a parlour maid at Tyneford, a great house in England. She comes from an upper class family and battles to do the housemaid chores that were done for her in Vienna. Natasha Solomons was a way of capturing the English people and
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by Sean Slater (Simon & Schuster) ISBN: 978 0 85720 038 9 With the recent Oslo massacre still a fresh scar in our minds, this gunfire-fast novel could not be more topical. On his first day back from leave, Detective Jacob Striker encounters three shooters wearing hockey masks on a killing spree at his daughter’s
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by Rebecca Dean (Harper) ISBN 978-0-00-731572-7 As an avid reader of historical fiction, I prefer novels that tell a true story about real people. The Golden Prince falls short of that expectation, as the love story is not based on fact. However, it is still an enjoyable read. Set in 1911, the 17-year old Prince
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by Johanna Adorján (author), Anthea Bell (translator) (WW Norton & Company) ISBN 978-0-393-0-80018 The book opens ominously: “On 13 October 1991 my grandparents killed themselves.” Quite a depressing introduction, but one that sets the scene of a memoir of a granddaughter trying to discover her true identity by analysing the events that led to her
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by Nora Roberts (Piatkus) ISBN: 978-0-7499-2926-8 Nora Robert fans will love this bulky whodunit story of Lil Chance. A young Lil falls in love with Cooper Sullivan, sulky and sad New Yorker. He is visiting his grandparents on their farm because his parents are trying to patch up their marriage. He discovers that Lil is
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by Alex Kava (Little, Brown) ISBN 978-1-84744-350-2 This is one of a series Kava has written about Maggie O’Dell, a Special Investigator with the FBI.Teenagers experimenting out in the woods come across a fearful beast, and the night ends in tragedy. Maggie O’Dell is in the area to help out the local police on
Life and Laughing: My Story by Michael McIntyre (Michael Joseph) ISBN: 9780718155810 I am always in awe of anybody who has the discipline and patience to sit down and write a book of any kind, most especially if it’s a good book. But I take my hat off to someone as busy and popular as
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