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• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

  Our children’s book of the month for August is Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko Al Capone – the blurb When Moose Flanagan and his family move home... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2020

• Why GCSE Texts Have to Change #BalanceTheBooks

  

  Stuck in a Twitter scroll the other day a tweet caught my eye. “I am very concerned that eldest’s GCSE English Literature texts – Macbeth, Lord of the Flies... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2020

• The Most Beautiful Walk in the World by John Baxter

  

  Join us for a mooch around Paris when we review The Most Beautiful Walk in the World. Beautiful Walk – the blurb In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2020

• Lockdown by Peter May

  

  A book written 15 years ago not published initially because London in Lockdown felt too far fetched. Cue 2020 where anything goes… Lockdown – the blurb A CITY I... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2020

• Sleeping Beauties by Stephen and Owen King

  

  What happens if all the women in the world fall asleep and never wake up again? We review Sleeping Beauties written by the great Stephen King and his son Owen. Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2020

• Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

  

  We meet Queenie – journalist, catastrophist, expressive, aggressive, loved, lonely, Enough? Queenie – the blurb “Queenie Jenkins can’t cut a break. Well, apart... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2020

• The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce

  We take a quick peep at Year 7’s summer reading list when we review The Unforgotten Coat. The Unforgotten Coat – the blurb “Two refugee brothers from Mongolia... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2020

• The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

  

  A time hopping, body swapping murder mystery. We review The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Evelyn Hardcastle – the blurb “Tonight, Evelyn Hardcastle will be... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2020

• The Lowdown – Heroes

  Can you believe it’s August already? In a year where we have clapped for the NHS using frying pans and wooden spoons we thought this month we would celebrate a... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2020

• July Round Up

  

  A round up of all we have read, written and obtained in July. What we have read in July Face masks, internet delivered food and state imposed curfews. Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2020

• Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees

  

  Recipes and spies in post war Germany. We join the #BlogTour for Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook. Miss Graham – the blurb “An ordinary woman. A book of recipes. Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2020

• The Unadoptables by Hana Tooke

  Our children’s book of the month for July is The Unadoptables by debut author Hana Tooke The Unadoptables – the blurb In all the years that Elinora Gassbeek... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2020

• The Accident on the A35 by Graeme Macrae Burnet #BigReview

  Our book of the month is The Accident on the A35 by Graeme Macrae Burnet. Does Raymond Brunet exist? Was there ever a lost manuscript? We give you our thoughts... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2020

• Get Involved with….The Accident on the A35

  Our Book Of The Month for July is The Accident on the A35 by Graeme Macrae Burnet. For our online Book Clubbers we have some questions below for you to get... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2020

• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

  

  We return to the Capitol, The Hunger Games and to Coriolanus Snow when we review The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes The Ballad – the blurb “It is the morning... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2020

• 1984 by George Orwell

  

  Careful now, Big Brother is watching!!!! 1984 – The blurb ‘Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’ Hidden away... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2020

• 2020 So Far…well the Books Weren’t a Write off

  

  As bad as it’s been, we are now over half way through 2020 so we thought we would take this time to look back (and forwards) to the books that have helped make... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2020

• The Lost by Mari Hannah

  

  We go all local when we review the first in the Stone and Oliver detective series – The Lost. The Lost – the blurb ‘He was her child. The only one she’d ever... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2020

• Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

  

  We read the sensational fictional autobiography about Daisy Jones the Six. Daisy Jones – the blurb Everybody knows Daisy Jones and the Six. Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2020

• The Waiting Rooms by Eve Smith

  

  A disturbingly on point debut, we review The Waiting Rooms The Waiting Rooms – the blurb Decades of spiralling drug resistance have unleashed a global antibioti... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2020