Wounds: a Memoir of War and Love
REVIEWED BY DYMPHNA CROWE Fergal Keane (William Collins: 2017) Over many years, Fergal Keane has written movingly about conflict all over...
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Book Reviews
The following books have been read and recommended by members of Suffolk Book League. The submissions are written by members and like many people, we're always keen to get a good recommendation.
If you are a member of Suffolk Book League and want to submit a summary of what you have been reading, please email info@suffolkbookleague.org. We'd be delighted to hear from you.
The Kids
REVIEWED BY JAMES PHILLIPS Hannah Lowe (Bloodaxe: 2021) Humorous. Engaging. Evocative. There is much to love about The Kids, Hannah...
Gall
REVIEWED BY ANDREW BURTON Matt Howard (The Rialto Press: 2018) As a teenager, inspired by a wonderful French teacher who encouraged us to...
The Unravelling
REVIEWED BY JEFF TAYLOR Polly Crosby (HarperCollins Publishers: 2022) About four years ago I visited Orford Ness for the first time. I...
The Flames
REVIEWED BY TRICIA GILBEY Sophie Haydock (Doubleday: 2022) Many years ago, I became intrigued by a print on a friend’s wall. The eyes of...
Normal People
REVIEWED BY GABRIELLE STONES Sally Rooney (Faber & Faber: 2019) I would like to warmly invite you into the world of Marianne and Connell....
Mystery and Imagination: two novels set on the Suffolk Coast
REVIEWED BY JEFF TAYLOR May sees the publication of two new books set on the Suffolk coast, novels which have certain similarities, but...
Tenderness
REVIEWED BY GARETH JONES Alison MacLeod (Bloomsbury Circus: 2021) During her recent visit to the Suffolk Book League Alison MacLeod gave...
Foster
REVIEWED BY DYMPHNA CROWE Claire Keegan (Faber and Faber: 2010, reprint 2022) Last summer I came upon The Quiet Girl, an Irish language...
Next to Nature
REVIEWED BY TRICIA GILBEY Ronald Blythe (John Murray: 2022) Ronald Blythe was 100 years old in 2022 and his publishers have marked his...
Potkin and Stubbs
REVIEWED BY DYMPHNA CROWE Sophie Green (Piccadilly Press: 2019) Although Sophie Green’s Potkin and Stubbs trilogy is aimed at a...
Assembly
REVIEWED BY GILL LOWE Natasha Brown (Hamish Hamilton: 2021) The narrator of Assembly is an unnamed intelligent, introspective young...
A Time and a Place: George Crabbe Aldeburgh and Suffolk
REVIEWED BY JEFF TAYLOR Frances Gibb (The Lutterworth Press: 2022) The recent pandemic, although mostly seen as a negative thing, did...
The Things You Didn’t See
REVIEWED BY ANN QUINTON Ruth Dugdall (Thomas & Mercer: 2018) Felixstowe based author Ruth Dugdall has successfully published seven novels...
The Easternmost House
REVIEWED BY JANET BAYLISS Juliet Blaxland (Sandstone Press: 2019) This book has been a local bestseller, chronicling the passage of a...
The Foundling
REVIEWED BY JANET BAYLISS Stacey Halls (Manilla Press: 2020) This is the author’s second novel, published in 2020, following The...
Barcelona Dreaming
REVIEWED BY JAMES PHILLIPS Rupert Thomson (Corsair: 2021) Have you ever found yourself curious about the lives of strangers? The stories,...
The Manningtree Witches
REVIEWED BY JANET BAYLISS A. K. Blakemore (Granta Books: 2021) Manningtree is a compact, attractive little town on the Stour estuary...
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