Keswick Reading Group
The Keswick Reading Group is led by Trina and Anne and meets every third Thursday of the month at 7pm Please email bookendskeswick@aolcom if you...
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From September we'll be hosting a series of events and poetry readings in Cakes and Ale café every other month Please watch this space for...
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 MoreWeyward
Review by Helen's Reads Weyward is a riveting and absorbing debut novel which tells the story of 3 generations of women living at different times,...
Read MoreThe Saint of Lost Things by Tish Delaney
A Helen’s Reads Review Lindy Morris lives with Auntie Bell on the edge of Donegal, in a bungalow on Granda Morris's land, although...
Read MoreCrossroads by Jonathan Franzen
A Helen’s Reads Review Meet the Hildebrandt family: firstly there is Russ, assistant pastor of the First Reformed church in New...
Read MoreBournville by Jonathan Coe
A Helen's Reads Review Bournville follows four generations of one family, whose lives are shaped and influenced by the Birmingham suburb where they...
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...
Read MoreHer Majesty’s Royal Coven
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson Hidden among us is a secret government department of witches known as Her Majesty’s Royal Coven...
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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