The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Reviewed by Rose Gant Maggie O’Farrell (Tinder Press: 2013) Members of the Suffolk Book League will be no strangers to the works of...
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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.
This Tale is Forbidden
Reviewed by James Phillips Polly Crosby ( Scholastic: 2024) Everyone knows the timeless classics that are fairy tales, but their origins...
Yellowface
Reviewed by Janet Bayliss R. F. Kuang (The Borough Press: 2023) This is a book by a young and very clever American author (27 at the...
Latch
Reviewed by Amber Spalding Rebecca Goss (Carcanet Press: 2023) Latch by Rebecca Goss is a poignant and finely crafted poetry collection...
Darling
Reviewed by Tricia Gilbey India Knight (PRH Fig Tree: 2022) I must start with a confession. I have only ever read the beginning of Nancy...
The Garden Against Time
Reviewed by Jeff Taylor Olivia Laing (Picador: 2024) I’ve been a fan of the writer Olivia Laing since attending a Suffolk Book League...
The Walled Garden
Reviewed by James Phillips (Manilla Press: 2023) by Sarah Hardy There’s a lot to be said about how nature and, in turn, gardens can help...
In Bloom
Reviewed by Aimee Piper (Simon & Schuster: 2023) by Eva Verde ‘Delph breathes in, her mother suddenly all around her. Their strange...
The Unwomanly Face of War: an Oral History of Women in World War II
Reviewed by Dymphna Crowe (Penguin Modern Classics: 2017) by Svetlana Alexievich. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky...
The Captain's Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song
Reviewed by Keith Jones (Random House: 2022) by Caroline Davison This book, chosen as the winner of the New Angle Prize awarded in 2023,...
Brian Morron’s Desert Island Books
I couldn’t resist the invitation to choose my eight Desert Island Books, but I soon realised what a tough task it was. How to select only...
East Jerusalem Noir
Reviewed by Dymphna Crowe Edited by Jarjoura Burbara (Akashic Books Brooklyn New York 2023) I often browse the shelves of the excellent...
The Invention of Roger Deakin
Reviewed by Andrew Burton The Swimmer by Patrick Barkham (Hamish Hamilton: 2023) Photo: Gary Rowland If Roger Deakin had not existed,...
The River of all the Goodbyes: an Angler on the Wharfe
Reviewed by Andrew Burton (The Medlar Press: 2023) by Chris McCully The River of all the Goodbyes: an Angler on the Wharfe is a love...
Impossible Creatures
REVIEWED BY TRICIA GILBEY (Bloomsbury: 2023) by Katherine Rundell Katherine Rundell’s previous books for children are wonderful adventure...
Angel
REVIEWED BY JEFF TAYLOR (Victorina Press: 2022) by Wendy Beasley I first came across this book last September, when Wendy contacted...
Foxash
REVIEWED BY JEFF TAYLOR (Tinder Press: 2023) by Kate Worsley Foxash is a novel set on a Land Settlement Association (LSA) estate in the...
Peak
REVIEWED BY JAMES PHILLIPS (Nasty Little Press: 2023) by Luke Wright When looking back at old photographs, what graces you? A smile? That...
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