Publisher: Penguin Publication Date: February 2025 Currently I am taking part in my local library’s ‘Book Bingo’ challenge for 2025. One of the categories within the challenge, to read 12 books over 12 months, is to read a book from a genre I would never normally read. Susan Barker’s book ‘Old Soul’ definitely fits that … More Old Soul by Susan Barker
Publisher: Collins Publication Date: September 2024 I started using the Children’s Almanac on the 1st of January 2025 with my seven-year-old son and it has been such a delight. As a home educator, sometimes thinking about what topics we will cover or focus on at specific points in time can feel a bit arbitrary. What … More The Children’s Almanac 2025 by Collins Kids
Publisher: Picador Publication Date: 6th February 2025 The Boy from the Sea is a novel that is set in Ireland in the 1970s. It opens prophetically with the arrival of a single baby boy, cast adrift and alone. The baby washes up ashore in a makeshift style float much to the interest and shock of … More The Boy From the Sea by Garrett Carr
Publisher: Picador Publication Date: October 2024 This has been my first read of a novel by Alan Hollinghurst and I am so pleased I decided to select this for one of my December reads. Having had a bit of a bumpy reading year, I have found that I have been picking up books reading a … More Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst
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