Book Reviews

November 2, 2017

Trust No Aunty by Maria Qamar (A Review by Aimee Silver)

  Rating: 4/5* This was a quick, sassy and cheeky read. I enjoyed learning more about another culture and drawing parallels with aunties in my own […]
October 31, 2017

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (A Review by Sharron McKenzie)

Rating: 5/5* On reading Home Fire, it quickly became clear that this was not going to be a novel with a happy ending for its characters. […]
October 23, 2017

A Beautiful Terrible Thing by Jen Waite (Review by Erin Woodward)

  This is a very quick bitesize read. Jen Waite, meets and marries a man, Marcus, to whom her love knows no bounds. It’s the first […]
October 20, 2017

The History of Bees by Maja Lunde (A Review by Janice Carkner)

  Rating: 3.5/5 The History of Bees shares the story of three individuals whose stories take place in different countries and at different times: England, 1852; […]
October 18, 2017

Are You Sleeping by Kathleen Barber (Review by Sarah Wreford)

GBC Rating = 4.5/5 Were you addicted to the podcast series “Serial” or did you ever watch Netflix’s “Making of a Murderer”? For a while it […]
October 16, 2017

Unf*ck Your Habitat by Rachel Hoffman (Review by Sarah Ryan)

  I’m a relatively tidy person – I do laundry, I hang my coat up when I get in and take the bins out. But like […]
October 10, 2017

Aspen Grove by Esther Lake (Review by Simone Gigg)

Rating – 4/5 ‘Oren Walker is a troubled teen living in rural Manitoba. His Danish mother is depressed, and longs for her homeland. His mixed-race father […]
October 5, 2017

Best Day Ever by Kaira Rouda (Review by Jennifer Boksman)

Rating: 5 * August 31st – I have decided to write this review in 3 stages. I am on chapter “5pm”, the days unfold hour by […]
October 4, 2017

My Lovely Wife (A Memoir of Madness and Hope) by Mark Lukach (A review by Vicki Camfield)

Rating: 5* My Lovely Wife is the story of Giulia and Mark’s Lukach’s relationship with mental illness. It is a story of love and heartbreak, of […]
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