by Sue Reid | Nov 7, 2024 | Book Reviews
“It is only now that we can read of Pippa Latour’s exceptional dedicated service as part of the Special Operations Executive and Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in World War Two. She lived her life with profound resilience and fortitude…” We...
by Sue Reid | Nov 7, 2024 | Book Reviews
“It was poignant to read of ‘older’ love – an aged love with all its imperfections and oddities. It is refreshing to embrace a narrative of real life, conflicts, irritations and quirks that just work in all the messiness of life…”...
by Sue Reid | Sep 12, 2024 | Book Reviews
“Meet Frankie…you just want her to speak out and step from the shadows that her Irish lack-of-luck life deals. From the moment I turned the first page I wanted to cheer Frankie on and sod those adults around her that played her like a pawn in the game of...
by Sue Reid | Sep 12, 2024 | Book Reviews
“A powerful, confronting narrative that causes your blood to pulse with rage…A strong and timely novel from Charity Norman – non-apologetic.” Raw and brutal in delivery from dire times we have recently emerged from – the covid years. You...
by Sue Reid | Sep 12, 2024 | Book Reviews
“An epic literary feast across centuries capturing the essence of the Muranese glass makers. A twist exists throughout the exquisite narrative – a stone that skips from 1486 to modern day. It can be a risky, clunky tool when you use ‘time...
by Sue Reid | Sep 12, 2024 | Book Reviews
“A refreshing, nostalgic whodunit writing style set in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand.” Fictional book-store owners, Garth and Eloise Sherlock provide a barrel of laughs as they reference familiar tasks and happenings in book store life until a mysterious...