Category: Non fiction
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Birdsong in a Time of Silence by Steven Lovatt – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A lyrical celebration of birdsong, and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature. “At this time of year, blackbirds never simply fly: instead, like reluctantly retired officers, they’re always ‘on manoeuvres’, and it’s easy to see from their constant agitation that for them every flower bed is a bunker, every shed a […]
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The Bad Place by Shane Dunphy – Audiobook Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The Bad Place sees Shane Dunphy contacted by an old friend seeking advice about children who went missing in the 1980s. The call forces him to revisit a dark time in his early career as a child protection officer, when a young girl described children in care being taken to a residence known […]
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In Sat Nav We Trust by Jack Barrow – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The book takes the form of a journey through one English county a day. Rather than having a plan, other than a rough anticlockwise direction of travel, the trip was largely spontaneous. This unplanned nature is what drives the narrative, similar to the way a MacGuffin drives a story, and opens the possibility […]
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Son Of Escobar: First Born by Roberto Sendaya Escobar – *EXTRACT*
Welcome to the Bookwormery and an extract from Son Of Escobar. But first a little about the book….. PUBLISHERS BLURB THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUE STORY Rescued as a baby from a fatal shoot out at which his mother dies and his father escapes, adopted by an MI6 agent working out of Colombia, kept in the dark […]
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The Twins Of Auschwitz by Eva Mozes Kor – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Eva Mozes Kor has written a very moving and vivid account of an extraordinary and horrific experience. It is an important document showing the strength of the human spirit and the capacity to forgive. She should be commended for having the courage to write about her traumatic childhood, leading to the forgiveness that […]
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Starchild: A Memoir of Adoption, Race and Family – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Michaela Foster Marsh and her brother Frankie grew up as “twins” in Glasgow, Scotland in the sixties. Born only weeks apart, Michaela was white and Frankie was black, and they were an unusual sight in their dual pram. Despite the love from his adopted family Frankie’s life was rarely easy, and it ended […]
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What Doesn’t Kill You: 15 Stories Of Survival by Elitsa Dermendzhiyska – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Contributors include Cathy Rentzenbrink, Rory Bremner, Melanie McGrath (a Mail on Sunday best British writer under thirty-five), Irenosen Okojie (a Betty Trask Prize-winning novelist) David Owen (a Carnegie Medal nominee), Lily Bailey (author of Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought) and Kate Leaver (writer for Glamour UK, Vice […]
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Sing Backwards And Weep by Mark Lanegan – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Kurt Cobain’s best friend and former Queens of the Stone Age member unveils the gritty underbelly of the Seattle music scene in the most honest and unflinching grunge memoir to date When the rock maverick and grunge pioneer Mark Lanegan first arrived in Seattle in the mid-1980s, he was just another nihilistic waster […]
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Animal Societies By Ashley Ward – Audiobook Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In our modern world of social media and relentless technological advancement, we are more connected than ever before. Though the scale of this connectivity is new, the instinctive desire to gather with our own kind has ancient roots. We can see the origins of our own societies in the social behaviour of […]
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The Princess Of Felling by Elaine Cusack – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The Princess Of Felling describes Elaine’s childhood and adolescence growing up on Tyneside in the 1970’s and 1980’s. The book pays homage to her hometown of Felling on Tyne and is an extended loving letter to her late parents. This illustrated poetic memoir features a Foreword by Michael Chaplin, photographs of Felling taken […]
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Act 3. The Art Of Growing Older by Judy Reith & Adrian Reith – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB At last, the life you want . . . post 50. We’re living longer, in better health, with higher expectations than any generation in human history. With an extra adult chapter to look forward to, what will you do? Who else could you be? How will you evolve the best plan for your […]
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18 Tiny Deaths by Bruce Goldfarb – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB ‘For most of human history, sudden and unexpected deaths of a suspicious nature, when they were investigated at all, were examined by lay persons without any formal training. People often got away with murder. Modern forensic investigation originates with Frances Glessner Lee – a pivotal figure in police science.’ 18 Tiny Deaths is […]
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Everything Is Going To Be K.O by Kaiya Stone – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB In Everything is Going to be K.O. Kaiya Stone writes about her own experiences of living with specific learning difficulties: from struggling at school to being diagnosed with dyslexia and dyspraxia while at university, to performing her own one-woman stand up show inspired by her journey. Always funny and unfailingly honest, Kaiya […]
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Tales Of Mystery Unexplained by Steph Young – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Tales of Mystery Unexplained….What happened to Elisa Lam, found dead in a water tower atop a hotel roof? Who were the two men who came to see her & what was in the mystery box they gave her? Why did the location of her gravestone match the zip code of a Bookstore, miles […]
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Hidden Wyndham by Amy Binns – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The first biography of the life of science fiction author John Wyndham is now available. It includes the first publication of a collection of love letters to his long-term partner and later wife, Grace Wilson. Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters, by Dr Amy Binns, author and senior lecturer in journalism at the University […]
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The Dark Side Of The Mind by Kerry Daynes – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Welcome to the world of the forensic psychologist, where the people you meet are wildly unpredictable and often frightening. The job: to delve into the psyche of convicted men and women to try to understand what lies behind their often brutal actions. Follow in the footsteps of Kerry Daynes, one of the most […]
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What Doesn’t Kill You by Rachel Haynes – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB What lies beneath survival is the realization that the end of treatment is not the end of the story. Rachel Haynes survived cancer not once, but twice. This is her story about facing treatment, the joy of remission, followed by the heartbreak of relapse and finally, unexpectedly, a cure. Rachel reflects on the […]
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Two Blankets, Three Sheets by Rodaan Al Galidi – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB ‘This book is fiction for the reader who cannot believe it. But for anyone open to it, it is nonfiction …’ Drawing on the author’s own experiences as an asylum seeker in the Netherlands – a darkly funny insight into the mind and soul of a refugee. ‘You have to take care, Mr […]
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First In The Fight by Helen Antrobus and Andrew Simcock – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Emmeline Pankhurst stands proudly in St Peter’s Square, but she stands for so many more… First in the Fight tells the compelling stories of the twenty women featured on the Our Emmeline statue long-list. Author Helen Antrobus brings to life the achievements of these radical Manchester women alongside beautiful illustrations by the Women […]
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You Can Change The World by Margaret Rooke – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB **Joint Gold Winner of the Moonbeam Multicultural Non-Fiction Award 2019** This inspirational book tells the stories of more than 50 of today’s teenagers who’ve dared to change the world they live in. It’s been written to show other teens they can do the same. Bestselling author Margaret Rooke asks teens about their experiences […]
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