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 …