Book Review: Love Stories by Trent Dalton Like a good bottle of Single Malt Love Stories is a book to be savoured and read slowly at one’s pleasure. In this book, Dalton has taken a topic as old as humanity itself, love, and given it his own spin. For two months in 2021,…
Until I read Peter Frankopan’s book Silk Road, I had little knowledge of Central Asia and its importance in world history. If pressed I might have mumbled something along the lines of ‘that’s where the Stans are, isn’t it?’ Frankopan’s thesis that following the rise of Islam, Central Asia became not only the centre of world trade,…
Fiction Rated: 5 stars Review by Alan Fox Rogers On first glance I did not find the cover of Cate Quinn’s latest book Black Widows enticing. Consequently, it has sat in my reading pile for the last six months, however, once I started reading it, I was hooked and finished it in three…
Fiction Rated: 5 stars Review by Alan Fox Rogers Colston Whitehead is one of only four writers have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice. The other authors are William Faulkner, John Updike and Booth Tarkington. So, in every sense, Colston is a literary heavyweight. Yet Harlem Shuffle, which Whitehead said he wrote…
Fiction Rated: 5 stars Review by Rose This is a beautifully written, almost lyrical, account of one man and how the river saved his life – quite literally. Freddy is tired of life – tired of modern living, tired of cell phones, tired of the rat race. He’s ready to give it all up and…
