The Cavendon Women by Barbara Taylor Bradford. About a family of aristocrats and their large family home and a group of women who worked together to keep their family home intake.
Thin, Rich, Pretty by Beth Harbison. I have always enjoyed Beth's books. This one was a bit slow at the start. It was about 3 women and jumps back in time to when they first met at camp. 20 years later the 3 girls still have problems they need to work through.
The Memory Book by Rowan Coleman. I liked the book it was about a woman losing her memory at an early age and how her family helped. Different family members share information about her life in a memory book.
Close Your Eyes by Michael Robotham. A book about murder and suspense.
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey. About a woman with dementia and missing people. Maud keeps forgetting things but she knows Elizabeth is missing and is determined to find her also she keeps looking for her sister who went missing 70 years earlier.
The Last Goodbye by Tasmina Perry.It was about a journalists, explorers, archivists, KGB and spies. A good book, Romance, adventure and life in the sixties.
Driving with the Top Down by Beth Harbison. A book about 3 women who want to change their lives. They each need to come to terms and sort out issues and misunderstandings to get the life they want. They set out on a road trip and meet an old friend on the way.
What a Girl Wants by Lindsey Kelk. A romance. Tess Brooks who has been working in advertising has been offered a job in photography, she gets to travel and live a different life. But she has to make choices in love.
The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarity. Sophie inherits a house on Scribbly Island and gets involved with the family living on the Island and eventually learns the secret of the unsolved Munro baby mystery.
A Time for Renewal by Anna Jacobs. A story set in the UK after the second World War. A group of families clear out an old house getting ready to rebuild and convert it into flats. Each family has its problems.
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Book List From 2015
Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. A young adult Gothic love story set in Barcelona in present time but is haunted by past events and a mysterious woman dressed in black. Evil lurks on every page.
A Taxidermist's Daughter by Kate Mosse. Set in 1912 -1913 in a small village in UK, Fishbourne near Chichester (Darkest Hour by Barbara Erskine also set in Chichester) Connie struggles to remember incidents from her early years before she had a head injury. The book is about identity, murder, revenge. A good fast flowing story.
The Mystery of the Missing Masterpiece by Robin Bowles. A Cornelia Finnigan mystery. Set in Australia Cornelia is a private investigator, also preoccupied with her clothes and shoes, especially shoes and boots.
Say You're Sorry by Michael Robotham. This was a well written book that kept me guessing all the way through.
Three Story House by Courtney Miller Santo. Three cousins help to restore Lizzie's grandmother's house all the while trying to uncover the secrets of the house and who is really Lizzie's father.
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. It was about a girl who travels on a train every day.As the train slows down in the same place everyday passing the house she used to live in, she notices things about the people who live in the house and what their habits are. She also notices that something is not right in a house further along the street. This book is about stalking.
The Whispering by Sarah Rayne. A good ghost story about a house - Fosse House, a secret room and a walled garden.
The Girl in the Photograph by Kate Riordan. Two women at different times in history are drawn to and haunted by a house and the events that happened.
How to Fall in Love by Cecelia Ahearn. Christine Rosi stops Adam Basil from jumping off a bridge.
One Wish by Maria Duffey. Becky Greene is a single mother, her daughter Lilly starts asking about her father. Becky starts looking for him.
The Year I met You by Cecelia Ahearn.
Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid. Young Adult Fiction. About book festivals, an old Abbey, vampires and romance.
In August 2015 I went to the Byron Bay Writers' Festival. I attended 2 sessions where Michael Robotham was on the panel.
A Taxidermist's Daughter by Kate Mosse. Set in 1912 -1913 in a small village in UK, Fishbourne near Chichester (Darkest Hour by Barbara Erskine also set in Chichester) Connie struggles to remember incidents from her early years before she had a head injury. The book is about identity, murder, revenge. A good fast flowing story.
The Mystery of the Missing Masterpiece by Robin Bowles. A Cornelia Finnigan mystery. Set in Australia Cornelia is a private investigator, also preoccupied with her clothes and shoes, especially shoes and boots.
Say You're Sorry by Michael Robotham. This was a well written book that kept me guessing all the way through.
Three Story House by Courtney Miller Santo. Three cousins help to restore Lizzie's grandmother's house all the while trying to uncover the secrets of the house and who is really Lizzie's father.
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. It was about a girl who travels on a train every day.As the train slows down in the same place everyday passing the house she used to live in, she notices things about the people who live in the house and what their habits are. She also notices that something is not right in a house further along the street. This book is about stalking.
The Whispering by Sarah Rayne. A good ghost story about a house - Fosse House, a secret room and a walled garden.
The Girl in the Photograph by Kate Riordan. Two women at different times in history are drawn to and haunted by a house and the events that happened.
How to Fall in Love by Cecelia Ahearn. Christine Rosi stops Adam Basil from jumping off a bridge.
One Wish by Maria Duffey. Becky Greene is a single mother, her daughter Lilly starts asking about her father. Becky starts looking for him.
The Year I met You by Cecelia Ahearn.
Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid. Young Adult Fiction. About book festivals, an old Abbey, vampires and romance.
In August 2015 I went to the Byron Bay Writers' Festival. I attended 2 sessions where Michael Robotham was on the panel.
Books to Read
I love reading and working in a public library gives me a chance to help library patrons find books that they will love to read.
Some books I have enjoyed. I really enjoyed Watching You by Michael Robotham. A library patron returned one of his books and told me about his books.
The Hidden Girl by Louise Millar
Hannah and Will move to the country - Suffolk to Tornley Hall - they start repainting ready for a visit from a social worker.
Things start going wrong. People want them gone.
Who is hiding in their house?
Can Hannah save her marriage and find the hidden girl?
Watching You by Michael Robotham
An excellent thriller about stalking, set in London.
The Darkest Hour by Barbara Erskine
As usual a good read, (I always like Barbara Erskine.) Set in present time and in the 1940's. Includes 3 ghosts.
Evie is an artist during the Second World War in Sussex. She paints war scenes, farm life and airmen at a local air base.
Evie has a friend Eddie who is her agent selling her paintings - Eddie is very demanding and trys to control Evie's life and has a hold over Evie's father.
The plot thickens, when Evie falls in love with Tony. Eddie prevents Evie and Tony seeing each other.
In the present time, Lucy is trying to write a biography on Evie. Lucy is faced with distrust and suspicion and needs to gain the trust of family members who were close to Evie.
Gradually Evie's life unfolds but there is evil in the shadows trying to prevent Lucy uncovering secrets.
Some books I have enjoyed. I really enjoyed Watching You by Michael Robotham. A library patron returned one of his books and told me about his books.
The Hidden Girl by Louise Millar
Hannah and Will move to the country - Suffolk to Tornley Hall - they start repainting ready for a visit from a social worker.
Things start going wrong. People want them gone.
Who is hiding in their house?
Can Hannah save her marriage and find the hidden girl?
Watching You by Michael Robotham
An excellent thriller about stalking, set in London.
The Darkest Hour by Barbara Erskine
As usual a good read, (I always like Barbara Erskine.) Set in present time and in the 1940's. Includes 3 ghosts.
Evie is an artist during the Second World War in Sussex. She paints war scenes, farm life and airmen at a local air base.
Evie has a friend Eddie who is her agent selling her paintings - Eddie is very demanding and trys to control Evie's life and has a hold over Evie's father.
The plot thickens, when Evie falls in love with Tony. Eddie prevents Evie and Tony seeing each other.
In the present time, Lucy is trying to write a biography on Evie. Lucy is faced with distrust and suspicion and needs to gain the trust of family members who were close to Evie.
Gradually Evie's life unfolds but there is evil in the shadows trying to prevent Lucy uncovering secrets.
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