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Book Review: Normal People
Normal People by Sally Rooney. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Normal People is the story of Marianne and Connell who grow up in a small town in the west of Ireland. The novel covers their relationship over four years as they finish school and go on to study at Trinity College in Dublin. Reading…
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Book Review: Friend Request
Friend Request by Laura Marshall. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Friend Request is the story of a woman who receives a Facebook friend request from a girl she used to know at school. A girl who died twenty-five years ago. As soon as I heard about this book, I knew I had to read…
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Book Review: Last Orders
Last Orders by Graham Swift. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Last Orders is the story of a group of men who take a short road trip from London to Margate to dispose of the ashes of their lifelong friend, Jack Dodds, stopping off at various places on the way. The book makes extensive use…
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Book Review: The Brotherhood
The Brotherhood by Jerry B. Jenkins. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. The Brotherhood is the story of Boone Drake, an ambitious rookie cop who wants to take on the Chicago underworld, facing some tough personal challenges along the way. The first few lines of this novel grabbed me straight away. I knew it wasn’t…
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Book Review: The Cement Garden
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. The Cement Garden is the dark story of four siblings who live together in a large house overlooked by tower blocks. First they have to deal with the death of their father, then their mother; then they do what they have to do…
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Book Review: Needful Things
Needful Things by Stephen King. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Needful Things is the story of a new shop that opens in a small town in Maine, and the subsequent events that unfold around the customers and the residents of the town as the proprietor of the shop begins to do business. The setting…
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Why I Write Fiction
Part three of a three-part series on how, what, and why I write.(Jump to: Part One | Part Two) So far in this series I’ve considered how I write and what I write. While both posts required a bit of thinking to pull together, this final instalment was the hardest. When George Mallory was asked…
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What Type of Fiction I Write
Part two of a three part series on how, what, and why I write fiction.(Jump to: Part One | Part Three) Before I thought about writing, I was an avid reader. From a young age I devoured books, both fiction and non-fiction. Like many people of my generation, my childhood was spent reading stories by…
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