I met MT Maguire via our blogs, probably at least a year ago. I have long been intending to read her books but writing a book last year meant that I hardly read any, something I am rectifying somewhat this year with my goal to review 52 books this year and read a few more than that.
I planned to read ‘Few Are Chosen’ aloud [...]
Roger Evans is a dairy and poultry farmer in the UK, he writes a regular column for the Western Daily News and is a popular after-dinner speaker. His book Over the Farmer’s Gate 
Award winning debut novel The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan promised an interesting read. I often find that books of such fame are either hated or loved by myself. I found this to be an interesting read – both in its content and in its method of delivery.
It tells the story of a rural community experiencing huge changes after the death of the Celtic Tiger. ?The [...]
I wanted to read Jo Baker’s Longbourn once I first heard about it. ?I had been ?disappointed by ‘Death Comes to Pemberley’ and have no intention of reading the modern version of Sense and Sensibility but this novel, the giving voice to the voiceless, letting us know what might have been going through the minds of the servants below stairs, telling us about their working lives, sounded like [...]
I loved Khaled Hosseini’s first two books, The Kite Runner and more so, A Thousand Splendid Suns. And The Mountains Echoes didn’t disappoint yet I didn’t think it was as good as A Thousand Splendid Suns – I think most readers would have felt so strongly for its two main female characters, the novel would just have stayed with them for months and years.
This novel spans many [...]
