
Pandora by Susan Stokes-Chapman
Reviewed by Karen Lane, Need a Read I love books set in the late 1700’s/ early 1800’s. It was a time when absolutely anything was possible. Curse...
Read moreReviewed by Karen Lane, Need a Read South African authors, Lucinda Hooley and Daisy Jones have been friends for years and back in the day they we...
Read moreReviewed by Karen Lane, Need a Read What a wonderful way to start the new year – a local debut novel written in a fresh voice by a young South Af...
Read moreReviewed by Karen Lane, Need a Read Ooooo this book is as delicious as the Black Cake of its title! I couldn’t put it down. Eleanor Bennet is dea...
Read moreReviewed by Karen Lane, Need a Read As I’ve mentioned before I adore Marian Keyes so I find it impossible to be objective about her books. I alwa...
Read moreReviewed by Karen Lane, Need a Read Nina de Gramont’s The Christie Affair is the most intriguing, clever and unputdownable novel that you’ll rea...
Read moreReviewed by Karen Lane, Need a Read Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move...
Read moreReviewed by Karen Lane, Need a Read Oh, the joy of this wonderful new read from Anthony Doerr who won the Pulitzer Prize for All the Light We Can...
Read moreReviewed by Karen Lane, Need a Read What a wonderful way to end the year! Amor Towles’s The Lincoln Highway is an absolute gift of a book, in fac...
Read moreReviewed by Karen Lane, Need a Read The Promise by Damon Galgut has won the coveted Booker Prize for 2021! He’s only the third South African to h...
Read moreReviewed by Karen Lane, Need a Read Relaxed, flexible home cooking from Yotam Ottolenghi and his Test Kitchen team. Whether they’re conjuring u...
Read moreReviewed by Karen Lane, Need a Read Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Award, on Oprah’s Book Club Choice and on President Obama’s summer reading lis...
Read moreReviewed by Karen Lane, Need a Read Envy, I confess was my first feeling when I finished this book – I would kill to be able to write a book like...
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