Children’s Storytime
EVERY SATURDAY! Every Saturday morning at 11 am our storyteller Lee will read a couple of children's books at Bookends From classic tales to the...
Read MoreStill Life
1944, in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening Ulysses Temper...
Read MoreA Tidy Ending
Just when you think Joanna Cannon cannot possibly beat the brilliance of her first two novels, along comes A Tidy Ending, and you realise that,...
Read MoreThe Hemlock Cure
Eyam, Derbyshire 1665 The plague is raging in London and will soon be headed towards this once safe rural setting The villagers will decide to...
Read MoreHelen’s Reads
We are very pleased to introduce Helen Towers to all our website friends We will feature lots of reviews by Helen, mainly contemporary fiction If...
Read MoreBurntcoat by Sarah Hall
A Helen's Reads Review In the bedroom above her immense studio at Burntcoat, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness is making her final...
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A Helen's Reads Review Marisa has only known Jake a few months, but she has completely fallen for him When he asks her to move in with him and...
Read MoreThe Magician
Reviewed by Helen's Reads The Magician is a fictionalised biography of the German-born, Nobel award winning writer Thomas Mann Prior to reading...
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