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Book Reviews – I Can’t Sleep

I Can’t Sleepby Stephanie Blake The author of the much loved Poo Bum has issued another picture book with the same rabbit, Simon, only this...

Book Reviews – A Killer Harvest

A Killer Harvestby Paul Cleave The internationally-acclaimed New Zealand crime writer Paul Cleave has published his 10th novel. Joshua is convinced there is a family...

Book Reviews – Knowing Being

Knowing Beingby Gerard Zwier Matakana author Gerard Zwier has written a book that spans various disciplines such as psychology, physics, biology, philosophy and ethology (the...

Book Reviews – A Gentleman in Moscow

A Gentleman in Moscowby Amor Towles It is 1922 and the handsome Count Alexander Rostov has been summoned before the Emergency Committee of the People’s...

Book reviews – Killers of the Flower Moon

Killers of the Flower Moonby David Grann In the 1920s, the richest people in the world per capita were the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma....

Book reviews – the Husband Hunters

The Husband Huntersby Anne De Courcy Anne De Courcy is well regarded as a writer of social history, and this one is subtitled “Social Climbing...

Book Reviews – A Woman’s Place

A Woman’s PlaceBy Joan Withers‘Successful women rarely set out to become role models. They just do the best they can and, hopefully, that becomes inspirational...

Book Reviews – Together

TogetherBy Julie CohenIs this a great love story or a story about great love? You, the reader, must decide. It starts in the present day...