Beth's Books (and other bits and bobs)
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Books I’ve gone and read
Author: Edward St Aubyn Title: Dunbar Press: Vintage (PRH) Date of Publication: 2017 Date of Purchase: December 2018 RRP: £8.99 Price of Purchase: This was a lovely thoughtful gift from my class secret santa Reading Time: 4 days Rating: 2 It’s been a while since I read a ‘bad’ book but I think this might …
Author: Maggie O’Farrell Title: I am I am I am: Seventeen Brushes with Death Press: Tinder Press (Headline) Date of Publication: 2017 Date of Purchase: December 2018 RRP: £8.99 Price of Purchase: I don’t remember but I did it through the evil empire (sorry) Reading Time: 2 days Rating: 8 So a lot of people …
Author: Anna Burns Title: Milkman Press: Faber and Faber Date of Publication: 2018 Prizes: Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018 Date of Purchase: December 2018 RRP: £8.99 Price of Purchase: Reading Time: 10 days Rating: 8 So I’ve been dying to read this since it was longlisted for the Booker way back in July …
Author: Celeste Ng Title: Little Fires Everywhere Press: Abacus Date of Publication: 2017 Date of Purchase: December 2018 RRP: £8.99 Price of Purchase: £4 Reading Time: 4 days Rating: 8 Little Fires Everywhere succeeded in transporting me straight to Shaker Heights and bang into Ohio in the nineties. Given I was five at the millennium …
Heather Morris: The Tattooist of Auschwitz Author: Heather Morris Title: The Tattooist of Auschwitz Press: Zaffre Date of Publication: 2018 Date of Purchase: December 2018 RRP: £8.99 Price of Purchase: £4 Reading Time: 3 days Rating: 7 I didn’t love this as much as I had anticipated. That said, it wasn’t bad. The story is …
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Author: Liane Moriarty Title: Truly Madly Guilty Press: Penguin Date of Publication: 2016 Date of Purchase: November 2018 RRP: £7.99 Price of Purchase: £2.49 Reading Time: 5 days Rating: 6 For what this was it was ok, nothing groundbreaking but fairly compelling. The teasing of the ‘event’ which has apparently changed the character’s lives forever …
Author: Kit De Waal Title: My Name is Leon Press: Penguin Prizes: Shortlisted for Costa First Novel Prize Date of publication: 2016 Date of purchase: November 2018 RRP: £8.99 Price of purchase: £2.49 Reading time: 3 days Rating:  8 Well if anyone had told me that a book about a nine year old boy who …
Author: Daphne du Maurier Title: Jamaica Inn Press: Virago Prizes: Date of publication: 1936 Date of purchase: November 2018 RRP: £8.99 Price of purchase: Free thanks to my wonderful friend Jules (check out her blog it’s much cooler than mine http://www.booksarejules.com) Reading time: 3 days Rating:  9.5 I could not stop reading this book. It …
Author: Rob Doyle Title: Here are the Young Men Press: Bloomsbury Prizes: Date of publication: 2014 Date of purchase: September 2018 RRP: £7.99 Price of purchase: £1.95 Reading time: 2 Weeks Rating:  4 Well heck. This was deeply disturbing from start to finish. A stark glance into an alternative Dublin populated with disillusioned youths and …
Author: Irvine Welsh Title: Filth Press: Vintage Prizes: Date of publication: 1998 Date of purchase: September 2018 RRP: £5.99 Price of purchase: £2.50 Reading time: 2 Week Rating:  6 As a Scot currently playing at contributing to the diaspora in the sunny South of England it seemed appropriate to return to my roots, read a …
Beth's Books (and other bits and bobs) 