The water dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
I haven’t read a great many books set in the “old south”. Many years ago I did read Gone with the...
3 February 2020
The Chimneys of Green Knowe by Lucy Boston
Tolly has returned to Green Knowe, his great-grandmother’s house, for the Easter break. But he is disappointed to discover that something...
21 August 2015
The Just City by Jo Walton
ARC received via the publishers & netgalley. Apollo just cannot understand why Daphne chose to turn into a tree. It simply...
10 January 2015
Kindred by Octavia Butler
It is 1976 and Dana and her husband have just moved into a new home. They’ve only been married four years,...
18 April 2014
12 Years a Slave [based on the memoir] by Solomon Northup dir. by Steve McQueen
In pre-Civil War New York Solomon Northup lives a good life with his family and two children. He is a free...
18 January 2014
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Sethe and her daughter Denver live in number 124. Denver’s older brothers have left home. Baby Suggs, her grandmother has died....
9 August 2013
Ilario: the lion’s eye by Mary Gentle
ISBN: 9780575080416 ; Delicious links We are so often a disappointment to the parents who abandon us. This is a return...
8 January 2009
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