sharing views and reviews on books in East Renfrewshire
When Claire regains consciousness after a stranger causes her car to crash in a snowstorm, she is frantic to discover her nine-year-old daughter Emma missing from the back seat. Then Emma is found in the woods nearby, unharmed but cradling a child’s skull. She claims it ‘called to her’ – and she can hear another [...]
Everyone needs a guardian angel…Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other’s sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. No one could imagine Holly and Gerry without each other. Until the unthinkable happens. Gerry’s death devastates Holly. But as [...]
It is the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americans, and when Inés’s shiftless husband disappears to the New World, she uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek adventure. After a treacherous journey to Peru, she learns of his death in battle. She meets [...]
Ali: Brick Lane
Still in her teenage years, Nazneen finds herself in an arranged marriage with a disappointed man who is twenty years older. Away from the mud and heat of her Bangladeshi village, home is now a cramped flat in a high-rise block in London’s East End. Nazneen knows not a word of English, and [...]
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
Fifteen-year-old Kambili’s world is circumscribed by the high walls of her family compound and the frangipani trees she can see from her bedroom window. Her wealthy Catholic father, although generous and well-respected in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. Her life is lived under his shadow and regulated by schedules: [...]
In 1960s Nigeria, a country blighted by civil war, three lives intersect. Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university lecturer. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. The third is Richard, a shy Englishman [...]
Ness: The Knife of Never Letting Go
Book review on “The knife of never letting go”
By Patrick Ness
I thought the book was an interesting story which kept me engaged until the end which was a cliff hanger leading on to the second book. I enjoyed it and I can’t wait to read the second book. It [...]
Hooper: Newes from the Dead
‘Newes from the Dead’
By Mary Hooper
I enjoyed this book but found it quite gruesome. It was about a girl who was accused of murder, even though she was innocent, and sentenced to be hanged.
After she was hanged though, the men at the place where the body was put afterwards realised she [...]
Gray: Ostrich Boys
This is a very interesting book. It tells the story of Sim, Kenny, Blake and their dead best friend, Ross. When Ross’ funeral doesn’t live up to their expectations, Kenny, Sim and Blake decide to take Ross’ urn on an epic adventure to Ross, far away in Scotland. The three friends undergo scrupulous [...]
Creech: Heartbeat
Heart Beat was an interesting but funny book and we enjoyed reading about a girl named Annie. Annie has a hobby which is part of her life really, it’s running and she enjoys her hobby with her best friend Max.
Annie tells us about her life as a child and when big changes happen in [...]