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Book Review – Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
This was really not my sort of book. I read it because I had seen a good review about another one of Moyes’ books. That being said, it was well written with some nice characterisations. There were many...
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Book Review – French Lessons by Ellen Sussman
I have just read French Lessons by Ellen Sussman and really enjoyed it, I picked it up as a maybe when I needed something to read and couldn’t put it down. In some ways it is 3 short stories all set on...
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Richard and Judy Autumn Book Club titles
The ten Richard & Judy’s Autumn Book Club titles have been announced, and they include debut novels such as Hannah Richell’s Secrets of the Tides as well as books by well established authors such...
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Book Review – The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer
The Girl who fell from the Sky by Simon Mawer is a gripping story of the selection and training of an inexperienced 20-year-old English girl – Marian Sutro – who, with a Swiss/French background, is...
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Book Review – The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
I’ve just read and really enjoyed “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce. Probably not my usual read but it was recommended to me by a friend – it follows Harold as he makes an...
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Book Review – The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
A short novel but is one that it is packed and one that is very easy to read. It deals the past and how we can often our memories of events can be affected by the passage of time. Are we remembering...
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Book Review – How It All Began by Penelope Lively
I picked up this book because I read an intriguing review, which said that it explored chaos theory – the idea that very small events can have enormous consequences. It does indeed do so, but in a very...
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Book Review – Room by Emma Donoghue
Some of the newspaper comments put me off – I don’t want my heart broken or my gut wrenched. However having got into the book I found it very well written, very clever in giving everything from a...
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Book Review – The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price Purveyor of...
Our readers group at Wetherby Library recently read this interestingly titled book. Here are some of their comments:- “The book is written in a gentle way, it completely reflects the behaviours and...
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Librarian Top 10 – Matt’s Best Reads 2015
This Librarian Top 10 is from Matt, an assistant community librarian based at Armley library. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck I’m a huge Steinbeck fan, ever since I read Of Mice and Men for my GCSE...
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