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If you’ve been following a while, you’ll know that I love to read, so the main focus of my website has always been to share book reviews and book club questions. Nothing is about to change there – books are, after all, what keep me sane (ish!)
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty In Apples Never Fall, Liane Moriarty shows great insight into family dynamics. http://homepageMoriarty’s latest...
Image courtesy of unsplash (Laura Kapfer) Fictionalising real life is turning actual events from the past into a fictional story...
Book Review on Bram Stoker’s Dracula Dracula begins with Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, recounting his journey to Transylvania on...
Book Review of Neil Shusterman’s Scythe and Thunderhead The Thunderhead has never been more relevant than it is right now...
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley is a claustrophobic thrilling page-turner. Book Review of The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley...
Book Review of The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri Christy Lefteri has spent her career learning about the situation...
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