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July 30, 2020
Book reviews with Torquay Books, July 2020
Enid by Robert Wainwright Enid Lindeman stood almost six feet tall, with silver hair and flashing turquoise eyes. The girl from Strathfield in Sydney stopped traffic in...
June 25, 2020
Book reviews with Torquay Books, June 25
Rootbound: Rewilding a Life by Alice Vincent From Telegraph’s gardening columnist and founder of Noughticulture, Rootbound explores how a whole new generation are discovering the power...
March 27, 2019
BOOK REVIEW – THE VAN APFEL GIRLS ARE GONE by Felicity McLean
A compulsive, note-perfect debut for fans of The Virgin Suicides and Picnic at Hanging Rock. “We lost all three girls that summer. Let them slip...
March 27, 2019
BOOK REVIEW The Rip by Mark Brandi
The new novel from the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Wimmera. An urban crime novel that slowly and masterfully hooks you in... then shocks with...
July 25, 2018
Book Review: Clock Dance By Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler returns with another ‘slice of life’ novel. Willa Drake’s life has always been dictated to her by circumstances out of her control; her...
July 25, 2018
Book Review: The Nowhere Child By Christian White
Kim Leamy is an Australian photography teacher based in Melbourne. Kim has just learnt she is actually Sammy Went, a two-year-old who went missing from...
June 20, 2018
Book Review: Calypso By David Sedaris
David Sedaris entertains in this book with stories about his family, his friends, but mostly himself. The opening story is perhaps the funniest. Having organised a...
June 20, 2018
Book Review: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen By Alison Weir
The third stunning novel in the Six Tudor Queens series by foremost and beloved historian Alison Weir. Eleven days after the death of Anne Boleyn,...
April 27, 2018
Book Review: The Death Of Noah Glass By Gail Jones
When art historian Noah Glass is found dead in a neighbour’s swimming pool, his two adult children, Martin and Evie, are devastated. Allegations by...
April 27, 2018
Book Review: The Bookshop Of The Broken Hearted By Robert Hillman
Robert Hillman has written a beautiful book which would be enjoyed by many types of reader. The reader is swept up into the lives...
March 28, 2018
Book Review: The Ruin By Dervla McTiernan
Irish Detective Cormac Reilly could never quite forget the death of Hilaria Blake, or more to the point, the two children she left behind;...
March 28, 2018
Book Review: The Sealwoman’s Gift By Sally Magnusson
In 1627, Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted at least 400 people. Among the captives sold into slavery in Algiers were...
February 25, 2018
Book Review: The Rules of Backyard Croquet by Sunni Overend
Last year staff at Torquay Books adored Overend’s debut The Dangers of Truffle Hunting and dubbed it “Bridget Jones meets Nigella Lawson”. She returns...
February 25, 2018
Book Review: The Cage by Lloyd Jones
The Cage, a new book by the author of the bestseller Mister Pip, is a work of fiction that presents the reader with questions...
January 29, 2018
Book Review: The Immortalists By Chloe Benjamin
New York, 1969: four siblings go to a fortune teller to learn the day of their deaths. The knowledge they take home with them that...
January 29, 2018
Book Review: The Woman in the Window By A.J. Finn
It’s been 10 long months since Anna Fox last left her home; 10 months during which she has haunted the rooms of her old...
January 3, 2018
Book Review: The Rules Of Magic By Alice Hoffman
It’s mid-twentieth century, New York and the Owens siblings, Fran, Jet and Vincent are grappling with usual teenage woes, however, a summer visit to...
January 3, 2018
Book Review: The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye By David Lagercrantz
Book Five in the “Millennium” series. Salander is sentenced to two months in Flodberga women’s prison for saving a young boy’s life by any...
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