Siblings Ralph and Emma Eldred grew up in a dour, oppressive family where their creationist father, Matthew, ruled the roost while their mother acquiesced, receiving each day “a used opinion from him.” Ralph and his father differ on the question…
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Orion Publishing, 2012. 978-0-29-785938-3 (Hardback); 978-0-297-85940-6 (eBook) Why recommended? One of the most talked about books of summer 2012, Gone Girl is a compelling dark psychological thriller about a contemporary marriage where all is not as it…
As the end of the year approaches, I have been looking back this week at some of the books that I most enjoyed reading in 2012. It has been a good year for fiction and there has no been no…
The 2012 shortlist for the Man Booker Prize was announced on September 11 and there is now just over one week’s reading time left for anyone trying to make their way through the shortlist before the winner is announced in…
When Wolf Hall won the Man Booker Prize I read the reviews and added it to my ‘must read’ list. Then, partly because I thought it was a historical novel and partly because I was daunted by the length, I…
From the very first sentence of Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel had me. This is a richly imagined novel — an absolutely believeable world with a full, complex, and well developed cast of characters — so plausible that the reader becomes totally…