A selection of recent reviews from the library Read It! boards, the place where our members recommend books they have enjoyed. Library members can request any of them via the link to our on-line catalogue. If you aren't a member it's easy to join either by filling in a form on-line or calling at a branch
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Non-fiction
Cracking the da Vinci Code: the unauthorised guide to the facts behind the fiction
by Simon Cox
Interesting to find which parts of the novel are based on fact and how much is pure imagination
Not on the label by Felicity Lawrence
Shopping will never be the same again! This expose of how supermarkets are exploiting suppliers and manipulating us, the consumers should be compulsory reading.
Just a boy: the true story of a stolen childhood by Richard McCann
Richard McCann's mother was the Yorkshire Ripper's first victim and her death turned him and his sisters into victims too; victims of a system that passed the unregarded offspring of a murdered prostitute from one violent foster home to another.
Life is just what you make it by Donny Osmond
Are you of a certain age? (mid-forties) Then this is the book for you. Re-live your teenage years!
Novels
The stabbing in the stables by Simon Brett
Fethering is the new Midsomer. Murders galore in a genteel village setting. Very enjoyable light read.
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Wish I had read this years ago! Very surprising - not about what I thought it would be about - I was transfixed.
Bleachers by John Grisham
Strangely for Grisham not a lawyer or a courtroom in sight. Rather it's the life, death and dream teams of an American football coach . A brilliant read though a bit of a weepy at the end.
The story of the night by Colm Toibin
A beautifully written book about relationships. I did not think I would finish something about gays and AIDS... To my surprise I found it very moving and will probably read it again.
What the staff have been reading
The dangerous book for boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden
A five star treat stuffed to bursting with useful, or satisfyingly useless, information on everything the male of the species needs to know, from navigating by the stars to playing poker. Highly recommended for naughty boys of all ages.
Wicked!: the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Greg Maguire
No, not because it's the book of the musical, but because I am fascinated by subversive reworkings of well-known stories. Find out why the Wicked Witch of the West is green. Learn the truth about Glinda. Take a fresh look at those ruby slippers. Quirky and thought-provoking.
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
A rivetting and poetic novel set in France under German occupation. The first two parts of an intended five part epic showing the bewilderment and banality of life under occupation. Two parts only because the Jewish author did not survive to complete it; she died in Auschwitz in 1942.
Dead watch by John Sandford
You always worry when a favourite author abandons his tried and trusted characters and starts a new series, but although John Sandford may have abandoned Lucas Davenport, star of his 'Prey' series, he's very much holding his place in my thriller hit-list. Intelligence agent Jacob Winter, his new hero, is a man to watch.
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