May 2014
Maggie & Me [suggested by Clare Freeman] It’s 12 October 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in […]
Maggie & Me [suggested by Clare Freeman] It’s 12 October 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in […]
The Examined Life [suggested by Wendy Gibson] This book is about learning to live. In simple stories of encounter between […]
Instructions For A Heatwave [suggested by Ross Allatt] It’s July 1976. In London, it hasn’t rained for months, gardens are […]
The Hundred-Foot Journey [suggested by Beth Garratt-Glass] The Hundred-foot Journey is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai […]
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage [suggested by Helen Close] The award-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro’s collection is about the lives, […]
N-W [suggested by Wendy Gibson] Zadie Smith’s brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners – Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan – […]
Life After Life [suggested by Cate Bale] [Originally suggested in April 2013 – this entry copied from there] Probably the […]
Kalooki Nights [suggested by Noel Fagan] [Originally suggested in September 2011 (and June 2012) by… er… Noel – this entry […]
The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid [suggested by Helen Close] Bill Bryson was born in the middle of […]
Tamar [suggested by Chris Cooper] In 1944, two spies are sent deep within Nazi-occupied Holland. Their mission – to help […]