Monthly Archives: March 2015

Mar18

Three things to get excited about!

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  1. Tonight I am going to Jordans Village Hall to hear the brilliant storyteller, Ben Haggarty. He came many years ago to Chorleywood Library and was one of the best storytellers I have ever heard so I can’t wait.  http://benhaggarty.com/
  2. On Sunday BBC Radio 4 are dramatising my all time favourite book, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. It will be in 3 parts, the first on Sunday at 3pm. I wonder how they will do it and if the voices will be coincide with those of my imagination?
  3. Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan will be out in paperback on March 26th so you can read this wonderful book, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014.  You can pre order it from Chorleywood Bookshop. Why not email them on chorleywoodbookshop@btinternet.com? If you are not local order it from hive.co.uk  You can nominate Chorleywood Bookshop as your favourite on Hive even if you are not local

What a lot to look forward to!

Mar3

Today’s titles on Nick Coffer’s Show

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The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton published Jan 1st 2015 by Pan Macmillan £7.99  paperback

This is a kind of 17th century thriller. A bit spooky as well

Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey published Jan 1st 2015 by Penguin £7.99 paperback

Maud is 81 and has dementia. This is her story. Funny, poignant, sad and very readable.

Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan published July 2014 by Vintage £16.99 hardback

This is going into my top ten books of all time at number 3. It is the winner of the Man Booker prize and is just stunningly unputdownable. The hero, Dorrigo Evans, is a doctor from Tasmania, who finds himself held by the Japanese in a prisoner of war camp. The inmates of the camp are expected to build the Thailand Burma Railway.

The Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen published by Random House Children’s January 2015 £6.99

This has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and for the Blue Peter fiction award which will be announced on World Book Day on Thursday. It is a gripping read aimed at 9 – 13 year olds

Sophia by Anita Anand published by Bloomsbury January 15 2015 £20 hardback

This is a biography of Sophia Duleep Singh, granddaughter of Ranjit Singh, the Lion of the Punjab and god daughter of Queen Victoria.

H is for hawk by Helen MacDonald published by Vintage February 2015 £8.99 paperback

Wonderful autobiography of Helen Macdonald training a goshawk called Mabel and learning to deal with her grief at her father’s death. Woven in is a biography of T.H.White, one time teacher and author of The Once and Future King