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‘Night Walks’ – Charles Dickens 2012

November 16, 2015

My rating: 4 of 5 stars ‘Night Walks’ from the Penguin ‘Great Ideas’ collection gives a wonderful series of snapshots of life in London during the mid 1800’s. D...

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‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ – Ransom Riggs 2011

November 8, 2015

My rating: 4 of 5 stars Enjoyable Halloween weekend read, not as creepy as I expected but perfectly suited to a younger YA audience. The book uses real photogra...

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‘Clockwork Angel’ – Cassandra Clare 2010

October 22, 2015

My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Solid 3.5 stars, a quality addition to the YA fantasy genre with engaging characters and dialogue, let down slightly by a formulaic pl...

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‘Madam Bovary’ – Gustav Flaubert 1856

October 19, 2015

My rating: 4 of 5 stars Madame Bovary takes its place next to Jane Eyre in my collection of favourite ‘romantic’ novels that are considered classics...

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‘Soft Apocalypse’ Will McIntosh 2011

October 14, 2015

My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars A slow burning novel about the end of the world. I didn’t think I was going to like this book. I thought it was going to be slow and d...

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‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage’ – Haruki Murakami 2013

October 8, 2015

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami My rating: 5 of 5 stars I really loved this book. It was strange, in typical Murakami st...

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‘The Natural Way of Things’ – Charlotte Wood 2015

October 5, 2015

The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood My rating: 3.5 stars In a word: unsettling. The Natural Way of Things is an unusual book, so far removed from my rea...

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‘Strange Weather in Tokyo’ – Hiromi Kawakami 2001

October 3, 2015

Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami My rating: 4 of 5 stars Beautiful and poignant, this little story stole my heart. The layers of the friendship and l...

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‘The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender’ – Leslye Walton 2014

September 28, 2015

My rating: 5 of 5 stars How can you summarize all the things a sunset makes you feel? There is hope for the future, anticipation of darkness, sadness and fondne...

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‘Rook’ – Shannon Cameron 2015

September 26, 2015

Rook by Sharon Cameron My rating: 2.5 stars In a sentence: Awkward French revolution homage. Rook has a really interesting premise: a post-apocalyptic world whe...

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