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The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce
This is not a new story. Artist father ruins his children in so many ways by being an egocentric monster. The catalyst for discovering this…
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And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
I am quite conflicted about what I think about this book. The third in the series, following on from The Kite Runner and A Thousand…
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Patch work by Claire Wilcox
A Life Amongst Clothes This memoir is fragments of rememberances pieced together to let us into Wilcox’s world both private and public. As a senior…
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A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
Translated by Charlotte Collins There are more books now that quietly show us the life of a person such as Stoner by John Edward Williams.…
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The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
I first read this book nearly forty years ago and so it is a real pleasure to come back to it now for book club…
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The Flower Thesaurus by Liz Potter
There are many ways organise planting in the garden. By geographical location often dependent on the soil, e.g. a mediterranean bed or by plant shape,…
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When I undertook my Permaculture design certificate, I understood that I had found my gardening home. I garden organically in a no-dig manner but neither…
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I’ve been in the reading doldrums for almost all of this year, not being able to find anything that I absolutely have loved. This was…
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I haven’t had a great reading year in terms of books that I have loved or even scored 4 out of 5 but this book,…
Trying to read all the good books 