Book Review: Tony Kushner’s Brundibar
A beautifully illustrated picture book with a weird story that doesn’t make sense.
Genre: fiction
Book Review: JoJo Moyes’ After You
An evolution of the sweet and a look at grief, coping with it, weathering it, coming through it. Now Louisa has a chance to rescue a part of Will…
Book Review: James Aitcheson’s Sworn Sword
An ambitious young Norman knight fights against desperate odds to consolidate the conquest of England in the years after the Battle of Hastings.
Book Review: Susanna Kearsley’s Named of the Dragon
Lyn is off to Wales for Christmas hoping its castles and myths bring relief from her nightmares, but the dreams continue, casting Lyn as baby’s protector.
Book Review: Patti Wheeler & Keith Hemstreet Ireland
Gannon and Wyatt travel to Ireland to explore history and volunteer on a farm where they embark on a secret mission to discover what is destroying Irish farmland.
Book Review: Mary Jennifer Payne’s Since You’ve Been Gone
Alone in a strange country, Edie is afraid to call the police for fear she’ll be sent back, and she now faces the most difficult decision of her life, how to find her mother.
Book Review: Matt Haig’s The Humans
Looking at our world through the eyes of an appalled alien in a journey and exploration as he learns how inaccurate and lacking, in part, his views are.
Book Review: Rainbow Rowell’s Landline
Fourteen years in…fourteen years back. She and Seth have the chance to make a 19-year dream come true but at the expense of Christmas with her family. Yet another sacrifice…
Book Review: Cornelia Read’s Invisible Boy
An exploration of self and the class and racial warfare that penetrates every level of society in the savage streets of New York City during the early 1990s.
Book Review: Louisa Treger’s The Lodger
The first biographical novel about Dorothy Richardson, peer of Virginia Woolf, lover of H.G. Wells, and central figure in the emergence of modernist fiction.