
The Rocky Road
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The Rocky Road is the autobiography of Eamon Dunphy - the man the Guardian called 'the most...

The Little Book of Man City
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In 2012, 44 years of agonised waiting came to an end with Manchester City winning the Premier League...

Coal Black Mornings
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Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in Coal Black...

Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
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"How the cat purred and how the witch grinned, As they sat on their broomstick and flew through the...

ClareR (5945 KP) rated Boys Don’t Cry in Books
May 18, 2021
Joe at 17, is the brother left to deal with the death of his 12 year old brother. His father manages to get himself in to trouble, and in to prison. His mother can’t cope. And Joe is struggling too. He is in an environment where it is all too easy for him to take the wrong path and end up like his father. Involved with the wrong people and in prison.
We see flashbacks to Finn as he is diagnosed with Leukaemia and how he copes with the treatment. He is such a happy, generous boy, who worries more about everyone else than about himself.
I don’t want to give much away, but Fiona Scarlett has created two boys who are wonderful human beings, despite the hand that has been dealt to them.
I adored this book. It still gives me a lump in my throat when I’m writing about it, never mind speaking to people about it - I’ll point them in this direction, I think.
It’s like the meme that says “This book has destroyed me and broken my heart. You MUST read it”
So yeah, just read it.

Confessions of a Failed Grown-up: Bad Motherhood and Beyond
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In Confessions of a Bad Mother, Stephanie described how she brought up her children 'wrong'. Now she...

Pussy: A Reclamation
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With this book, you're being handed the keys to a turned-on life - a life that is authentic, radiant...

Five-Carat Soul
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Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award-winning novel The...
Fiction social issues

One Hundred Demons
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You ll wonder how anything can be so sad and so funny at the same time. Lev Grossman, "Time" ...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2395 KP) rated Nun But the Brave in Books
Feb 18, 2022 (Updated Feb 18, 2022)
I’d forgotten just how funny this series was until I picked this book up. I loved the banter between Giulia and those in her life. Some of the humor was on the crude side, but it was still handled as delicately as possible. The plot was good. She made a couple of leaps of logic early on, but, I was willing to let that slide. The plot holds up well on, and everything is resolved with evidence Giulia finds along the way by the time we reach the climax. The characters are wonderful. They may make us laugh, but there is depth to them that makes us care about the outcome. If you are looking to laugh as you read, be sure to check out this book.