Book Reviews

Plot: A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh is nothing less than a true children's classic. Winnie-the-Pooh may be a bear of very ...
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Plot: Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and ...
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Plot: The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Brontë. It was originally written before Jane Eyre and rejected by ...
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Plot: Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a literary touchstone of the ...
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Plot: Transform your home -- and your life -- with cleaning, tidying, and decluttering tips from British housekeeping sensation Mrs ...
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Plot: Frankie Rose is desperate for love. Or a relationship. Or just a date with a semi-normal person. It’s not that ...
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Plot: A witty, coming-of-age, romantic comedy about friendship, unrequited love and betrayal. Declan's a tad annoyed; not only has the ...
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Plot: Growing up in a quiet Yorkshire village, Roxanne couldn’t wait to escape and find her place in the world ...
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Plot: Time Out's Shortlist pocket guide selects the very best that London has to offer. Our expert local authors introduce ...
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Plot: The road in front of Dr. Louis Creed's rural Maine home frequently claims the lives of neighborhood pets. Louis ...
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Plot: Natasha Bishop has come a long way from painting pictures of landscapes in her Caribbean homeland to being a ...
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Plot: Set against the glorious Cotswold countryside and the playgrounds of the world, Jilly Cooper's Rutshire Chronicles, Riders, Rivals, Polo, ...
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Plot: What if you met the right person at the wrong time?Nell and Van meet as children when their parents ...
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Plot: She Must be Mad explores coming-of-age: the pain and beauty of love, the relief and the agony of turning ...
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Plot: Harry has a secret. He led a well-planned life and knew exactly what he wanted. Until... Something chased him ...
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ptr Plot: Leadership is like beauty, hard to define but you know it when you see it. And sadly, we ...
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Plot: In this heartfelt tribute to his mother, Sean Hepburn Ferrer offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the life ...
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Plot: Tash, Emma and Amy couldn’t be more different.A successful estate agent who has her life pretty much on track, ...
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Plot: Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love ...
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Plot: An insider's account of life with Sinatra during the heady years of the Rat Pack that's as cool, original ...
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Plot: Have you ever:• Invested time in something that, with hindsight, just wasn't worth it?• Overpayed in an Ebay auction?• ...
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Plot: On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother's past. But Sofia ...
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Plot: In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the ...
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Plot: Four women learn their boss (a man who’s always been surrounded by rumors about how he treats women) is ...
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Plot: Objectively, Sophie is a success: she's got a coveted job at a top consulting firm, a Manhattan apartment, and ...
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Plot: "They say there is no such thing as a perfect marriage, but of course there is. A perfect marriage ...
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Plot: One autumn in the late 1920s, Constanza boards a train in Italy en route to Brussels and a new ...
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Plot: Henry Perowne is a contented man — a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good ...
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Plot: Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the ...
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Plot: A year after leaving her controlling ex, Roxy’s divorce is finally official. She’s got her confidence and career back ...
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Plot: If you could make one simple choice that would change your life forever, would you? Erin is a documentary ...
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Plot: It was love at first sight when Tembi met professional chef, Saro, on a street in Florence. There was ...
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Plot: Following the tragic death of her beloved husband, Anna Hemingway decides it's time for a fresh start. So Anna ...
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Plot: In 1945, World War II is ending. For Major Sally Honeychurch the war is just beginning. Major Sally Honeychurch ...
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Plot: Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa ...
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Plot: Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she ...
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Plot: She's the seduction expert. Women contact her to take over their love lives. She steps in when they're lost, ...
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Plot: Angie has always wanted to travel. But at 29, she has still never left her small mining town in ...
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Plot: Hard-up florist Molly Bailey has just won £4.2 million pounds in the National Lottery. And she needs to get ...
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Plot: In this refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author and world-traveling success coach, Jen Sincero, serves ...
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Plot: On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the ...
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Plot: Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height ...
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Plot: When 11-year-old Ren's master dies, he makes one last request of his Chinese houseboy: that Ren find his severed ...
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Plot: Ian McEwan's first female protagonist as far as I am aware. This novel is the ultimate seduction. Cambridge student ...
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Plot: Tilly Parker needs a fresh start, fresh air and a fresh attitude if she is ever to leave the ...
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Sunset Reads Plot: In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces ...
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Plot: Nestled on the Spanish coast, bustling café Estrella features in every one of Ava Brown’s happiest memories. It’s where ...
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Plot: Welcome to the little cafe in Copenhagen where the smell of cinnamon fills the air and the hot chocolate ...
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Plot: "But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, ...
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Morning Reads Plot: As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, ...
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Plot: Sylvia Plath's shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanity. Esther Greenwood ...
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Plot: The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one ...
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Plot: Two misfits. One extraordinary love. Eleanor... Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying ...
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Plot: If your boss was the hottest rock star on the planet, would you mix business with pleasure? I'm Meg ...
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Plot: The glamorous capital city of Italy is brought to startling life in The Rome Affair, a compelling summer novel ...
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Plot: We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, ...
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Plot: Daniel Klein’s fans have fallen in love with the warm, humorous, and thoughtful way he shows how philosophy resonates ...
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Plot: She’s your best friend. She knows all your secrets. That’s why she’s so dangerous. A single mother's life is ...
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Plot: All's fair in love and war - especially when there's a trust fund at stake. The four beautiful Chambers ...
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This month I am aiming to read these 6 books! 6 books in one month is a little higher above ...
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Bath-time reads! Plot: One summer, property seeker, Serendipity Parker finds herself on the beautiful west coast of Ireland, hunting for ...
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Adventure Reads Plot: The Orient Express. Luxury. Mystery. Romance. For one group of passengers settling in to their seats and ...
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Plot: “I made the wrong choice.” Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for ...
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Plot: Bramble Challoner has had a very normal upbringing. She lives in a semi in the suburbs of London with ...
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Plot: In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her ...
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Plot: Cleo Moon is starting life over again after a divorce. She lands a job as PA to Lady of ...
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Plot: They met in rehab - but some of them had rather more therapy than they bargained for. Supermodel Amber ...
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Plot: Bo, 26, has always been careful, cautious. However, she has just been made redundant and her life plan is ...
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So from this month onwards hopefully I will stick to doing an end of month post where I share my ...
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Plot: Hazel never set out to be a wedding planner. She was just helping her stressed sister Lila with cakes ...
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Finally got to read this at last! Plot: One year after movie star Joseph Strike swept schoolteacher Alice off her ...
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Most of my current To Be Read pile! One hobby that consumes most of my free time is reading. I ...
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From this month onwards my friend and I have started a book club and this month’s reads is Breakfast at ...
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Plot: When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I’d pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, ...
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Plot: Identical Triplets. Phoebe is caught between a rock and a hard place. Settle down and get married, or return ...
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Plot: For Megan, a winter escape to Prague with her friend Ollie is a chance to find some inspiration for ...
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Plot: Bridget, a successful travel journalist with ambitions to turn her quirky relationship blog into a novel. After numerous rejections ...
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So! I started this blog during the start of summer however I never found the motivation to actually continue it, ...
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Plot: The sun is shining in the quiet little seaside town of Sandybridge Sandybridge is the perfect English seaside town: ...
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Plot: They come together by chance in the heart of New York City, four young women at turning points in ...
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 Summary  High on a hill in the Tuscan countryside stands a castle of golden stone, home to Patricia O’Hara’s writers’ ...
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Settling down for a 24-hour flight to Australia, Lucy finds a text message on her phone from a woman claiming ...
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