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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill (contains spoilers)
This book came highly recommended by various members of the Let’s Read book club, and had been part of the “must read’ list for close to two years. The Book of Negroes, by Lawrence Hill, tells the story of Aminatta Diallo, from her innocent childhood (in what is now known as Mali) through her life […]
War of the Roses: Stormbird by Conn Iggulden
I am nothing more than a bauble, while they play games of power all around Margaret Anjou Stormbird is the first chapter in the new War of the Roses series by Iggulden. It is the first of his historical novels to be set in England. And comes on the tail of his Emperor Series. My review […]
Elaine Adu-Poku 