I came from a line of women who bore a single child and were dead before it’s eighteenth birthday A Cupboard Full of Coats is the debut novel by Londoner Yvette Edwards. It is set over a weekend and examines both the happenings in the lead up to the murder of Jinx’s mother 16 years […]
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The New Rules: The dating dos and don’ts for the digital generation by Fein & Schneider
The New Rules: The dating dos and don’ts for the digital generation by Fein & Schneider is an update to the highly successful The Rules. When I suggested this book for book club I was being slightly tongue in cheek. I did believe that it would provide the book club attendees with enough food for […]
The Flavours of Love by Dorothy Koomson
The Flavours of Love is the latest novel from the internationally bestselling author, Dorothy Koomson, who brought us The Ice Cream Girls and The Rose Petal Beach. It tells the story of Saffron Mackleroy, a recently bereaved widow 18 months after the murder of her husband. The book conveyed the emotions one experiences when they […]
Driver by Taiye Selasi (audiobook)
Madam has the contours of a girl I knew in Dansoman and sculptures sold at Arts Centre and Bitter Lemon bottles. Slender top and round the rest. A perfect holy roundness that is proof of God’s existence and His goodness furthermore. Her skin is ageless, creaseless, paint. Her lower back a hiding place. The colour brooks […]
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon by Alexander McCall Smith
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon by Alexander McCall Smith is the 14th instalment in the popular The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. It was, however, the first of the series that I had read so I was able to read the book without any preconceptions or expectations about what to expect from the travails […]
Elaine Adu-Poku 