Left on the Shelf
My reading journey
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
Stoner by John Williams
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John Stoner is born into a poor farming family in Missouri at the end of the 19th century. John’s father recognises that farming changes w...
Sunday, 20 July 2014
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
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Aaliya Saleh lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, childless, and divorced, Aaliya ...
Thursday, 17 July 2014
I'm Back!
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Hello everyone, I am back from a wonderful trip to Yorkshire staying with my lovely son. Between visits I always forget what a beautif...
Friday, 4 July 2014
The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard
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This is the story of three generations of the Cazalet family who ordinarily spend their summers in Sussex. The novel covers the summers of...
Sunday, 29 June 2014
Living with Strangers by Elizabeth Ellis
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Madeleine and her young daughter, Chloe, live in France above the bar where she works. One day she receives a package of letters that she ...
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
What Was Promised by Tobias Hill
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Bernadette and Clarence Malcolm have come to Bethnal Green, London, from Jamaica with their young son. Solly and Dora Lazarus are Jews who...
Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope
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“Women have often been hardly used by men, but perhaps no harder usage, no fiercer cruelty was ever experienced by a woman than that which...
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