Reviewed by Carole Castle For Once in My Life is London writer Marianne Kavanagh’s debut novel. The cover is enticing and symbolic: a little black dress, piano keys and large splashes of colour. Tess believes everyone in the world has a soul mate – they are two halves of a whole. They just have to
Reviewed by Sue Green From an aimless but ordered life in Edwardian England, with a wife and young daughter, Harry Crane moves alone to the wild and untamed Canadian prairies. Winter becomes his home, his sanctuary and ultimate escape from a life of potential misery. A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale is a novel
Reviewed by Ian Lipke It is only when readers recall the weekly column in the London Observer from 1972 to 1982 that the puzzlement over Clive James’ title is explained. By comparison with that period the second decade of the twenty-first century is awash with television shows and series. Bingewatching is now ubiquitous. Netflix, Jack,
Reviewed by Ian Lipke I read with a great deal of pleasure Robert Macklin’s book on Hamilton Hume. It is the product of a great deal of research into primary materials containing, I suspect, much information that most of us did not know and it clears up misconceptions along the way. Macklin’s style is easy
Reviewed by Ian Lipke Picture if you will a young girl, perhaps fourteen years of age, who has been trained in dance since she was four years old. A girl who sees her career as a dancer. For ten years this vocation has been the only one to bind her body and soul, the
Reviewed by Ian Lipke Two by Two by Nicholas Sparks is a more than competent look at the undercurrents that swirl around the participants in a marriage that is foundering. It takes a certain personality to write successfully about such a topic. It takes a very skilled writer to ‘pull it off’. The person has
Reviewed by Sue Bond Randolph Stow had an extraordinary mind, imagination and curiosity. By the age of twenty-one he had completed a Bachelor degree in English and French, largely with distinction, written three novels and published thirty-five poems. He had been broadcast by the ABC, written several plays and other poems which were discarded, won
Reviewed by Ian Lipke Having read almost every detective yarn Agatha Christie ever wrote and followed Poirot with some dismay and Miss Jane Marple with delight, I was thrilled to discover Anthony Horowitz’s new book. This man is a legend in Television Land where he is the undisputed king of both the Midsomer Murders and