December Round-Up – The Books I Read In December 2018

This month I managed to read and review six books. Here is a roundup of my blog posts this month... My first read of the month was Unsheltered, the latest novel by Barbara Kingsolver. This was an enjoyable read which alternates between two timelines, exploring the lives of two families who live in the same …

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

October saw the publication of Unsheltered, the latest novel from much loved writer Barbara Kingsolver. I also had the chance last month to attend an event at my local Waterstones to hear Barbara talk about her work which made for interesting listening, and left me keen to find out more about the world she has …

January Round Up – The Books I Read In January 2016

In January I read eight books, all of them fiction: Shtum by Jem Lester (Orion Books) – Sure to be a big hit when it is published in April, Shtum is a wonderful, moving story of a family raising a young boy with autism. As he reaches his breaking point, Ben Jewell and his wife …

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Originally published in 1998, Barbara Kingsolver’s much loved novel, The Poisonwood Bible tells the story of the Price family, a missionary family who in 1959 move from their home in Georgia to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo. ‘Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened’ The book is split into …