Tag Archives: Fiction
Summer Reads
The sun is shining, it is warm, the World Cup is on and the cricket season is underway – its Summer! So of course, the summer reading lists are out. The first is the Richard and Judy list. I often enjoy the books on their list, so I am eager to try some! Past Imperfect [...]
Share on FacebookBook News: Amazon Awards Winner Announced
Amazon.com and Penguin Group came together to provide authors with the chance to win the Breakthrough Novel award. There are two winners – one for general fiction and one for young adult fiction. And the 2010 winners have been announced: General Fiction Patricia McArdle: Farishta Synopsis: Patricia McArdle, a resident of Arlington, Va., is a [...]
Share on FacebookQ & A / Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup
This is the reading circle book on the Book Club Forum so this review will be a bit different. Waterstone’s Synopsis: Former tiffinboy Ram Mohammad Thomas has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz-show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in prison on suspicion of cheating. Because [...]
Share on FacebookA Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
Waterstones Synopsis: Her uncle, known as The Mouth, is head of the church, responsible for the harsh laws and cruel ‘shunning’, yet that doesn’t stop Nomi falling for the town’s most unsuitable boy – Travis. In such a secretive and god-fearing community, Nomi finds it impossible to find ways to express her many and growing [...]
Share on FacebookIn The Heart of the Canyon by Elisabeth Hyde
Waterstones Synopsis: The temperature is over 100. The rapids are some of the largest in North America. Water levels are rising. And JT Maroney, veteran river guide, is leading his 125th trip down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. For the next two weeks, his 13 passengers – strangers, mostly – will paddle, row, [...]
Share on FacebookThe Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
This review is different to the others. It is a series of answered questions because it was www.bookclubforum.co.uk’s reading book of the month. Waterstone’s Synopsis Meet the Troutmans. Hattie is living in Paris, city of romance, but has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Min, her sister back in Canada, is going through a particularly [...]
Share on FacebookThe Cloths of Heaven by Sue Eckstein
Synopsis from Myriad Publishers: West Africa in the early 1990s. Isabel Redmond is tiring of her iconoclastic husband’s penchant for pendulous black breasts; the High Commissioner and his wife Fenella are both enjoying illicit affairs; an old English judge is wandering through the scrub following a tribe of Fulani herdsmen; Bob Newpin is about to [...]
Share on FacebookPS I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
Synopsis: A wonderfully warm and heartfelt debut from a stunning new talent. Everyone needs a guardian angel! Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other’s sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. No one could imagine Holly and Gerry [...]
Share on FacebookThe Chocolate Run by Dorothy Koomson
Synopsis from Amazon: Amber Salpone thinks in chocolate – talk to her for three minutes and she’ll tell you what kind of chocolate you’d be. In fact, most days, if she was asked to choose between chocolate and relationships, there’d be no contest. At least chocolate has never let her down. Unlike her family. Growing [...]
Share on FacebookSpeaking of Love by Angela Young
Synopsis from Beautiful Books: When human beings don’t talk about love, things go wrong. If a mother had told her daughter that she loved her, they might not have spent years apart. If a man had found the courage to tell a woman that he loved her she might never have married another man. And [...]
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