Isn't that title intriguing? It turned out to be a very intriguing read. The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep I would characterise this as being a "fictional biography". The story is Juliet Butler's take based on the fascinating lives of Russian conjoined twins Dasha & Masha Krivoshlyapova. Born in 1950s Soviet Russia the twins…
Friend request: Social media mystery
Friend Request is the debut novel of Laura Marshall. When I read the blurb about this book, I wanted to read it. “Louise receives a Facebook friend request from Maria Weston.” “Maria Weston wants to be friends. But Maria Weston’s dead. Isn’t she?” Ohh, talk about goose bumps! The novel follows Louise a woman with…
Finding Gobi
I was so glad I got the chance to read Finding Gobi as I have been following Dion and Gobi’s story via the news and social media for some time. Written in the third person, the story almost has a fiction feel, even though you know it is true. It is a light and easy read, suitable…
My kind of food by Valli Little
I was super excited to get the chance to review Valli Little’s latest cookbook My Kind of Food. As an avid eater (but a rather basic cook who loves to experiment) it sounded right up my alley. My hopeful assumption was that the title would mean there would be no En vessie or Tiger lily buds involved? Thank goodness…
Sarah Waters and the joy of book-talks
In an earlier post before I went to see author Sarah Waters speak as part of Shifting Points of View, I admitted that I'm often wrong about how I think her stories are going to play out - and I now know why Sarah’s novels always have such agonising twists! She is even more intelligent than I expected. Amazingly…
Sarah Waters: Mistress of the agonising twist
I was so excited when I heard the highly acclaimed UK author Sarah Waters, author of such novels as Tipping the Velvet, The Fingersmith and The Night Watch, was going to attend WORD Christchurch's Shifting Points of View "mini-festival" during the Christchurch Arts Festival. I had just finished her latest novel The Paying Guests, and have also…
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