The GEH book choice this month was Mike Gayle’s Half a World Away. A story about two strangers, living in different worlds, with apparently nothing in common – but was this the case? Libby Page described it as “heartbreaking and Read More …
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SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group review of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
This month’s choice was the classic Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte. The famous tale follows the life of Jane, an orphan. It tells of how she overcomes her harsh childhood to become a governess, before falling in love with her Read More …
GEH Wellbeing Reading Group review of The Four by Ellie Keel
Excitingly this month we’ve been gifted signed copies of The Four by Ellie Keel to read, courtesy of her publisher. Frankly this is the most attractive book we’ve ever read, with a gorgeous hot pink cover and painted page ends. Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group Reviews of May All Your Skies Be Blue by Fiona Scarlett and Under a Pink Sky by Esther Ghey
This month we went with a ‘skies’ theme, and had a choice of two books, the fictional May All Your Skies be Blue by best selling author Fiona Scarlett and the non fiction Under a Pink Sky by Esther Ghey. Read More …
GEH Wellbeing Reading Group review of The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
In June our reading group read The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. This month I’m using the synopsis from the author’s web site, as it’s so good! “Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has Read More …
Joint SWFT and GEH Wellbeing read: Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
Described as ‘a gripping and deeply moving novel of bravery, friendship, and standing up against book banning’, reading Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books during Libraries Change Lives Week was always going to be interesting. Our copies were a Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group Review of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
Lenni is 17. Margot is 83. Together they are 100. They have something to say, and one day, in an art class, they sit down to tell their life stories in 100 drawings. We do need to address the elephant Read More …
GEH Wellbeing Reading Group review of The Day of the Roaring by Nina Bhadreshwar
“It starts with a murder…but the truth is far more shocking”. So reads the cover blurb on the reading group’s most recent offering, The Day of the Roaring by Nina Bhadreshwar. A debut crime thriller set in Sheffield, we follow Read More …
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SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group Review of Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd
Nora Breen has spent 30 years in a convent, but when her penpal (and ex novice) friend Frieda vanishes, she leaves the convent in search of her and moves to the hotel where Frieda was last seen. This cosy crime Read More …