Never

author: Ken Follett name: Kim average rating: 4.18 book published: 2021 rating: 5 read at: date added: 2022/02/02 shelves: review: Never say never…A chilling narrative set in the not too distant future of what might just be. Ken Follett at this best, sharp, well...

Empires

author: Nick Earls name: Kim average rating: 3.50 book published: rating: 1 read at: 2021/12/20 date added: 2021/12/20 shelves: review: I just didn’t get itHard to write a review without revealing the twist. All through the book I kept waiting on something to happen,...

Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy

author: Ben Macintyre name: Kim average rating: 4.43 book published: 2020 rating: 5 read at: 2021/10/16 date added: 2021/10/17 shelves: review: A fascinating true story of an extraordinary womanAgent Sonya was a real spy who literary changed the course of history...

Small Acts of Defiance

author: Michelle Wright name: Kim average rating: 3.75 book published: rating: 5 read at: 2021/09/08 date added: 2021/09/08 shelves:...

The Last of the Apple Blossom

author: Mary-Lou Stephens name: Kim average rating: 4.70 book published: rating: 5 read at: 2021/08/07 date added: 2021/08/07 shelves: review: Just a wonderful read – highly recommendedHuon Valley, the apple orchards and the bushfires of 1967 is the starting...

Where My Heart Used to Beat

author: Sebastian Faulks name: Kim average rating: 3.89 book published: 2015 rating: 3 read at: 2021/08/02 date added: 2021/08/02 shelves: review: Not at his best, but still a good readIt would be almost impossible to follow up ‘Birdsong’, one of the most moving,...

American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

author: Derek B. Miller name: Kim average rating: 4.28 book published: 2018 rating: 4 read at: 2021/07/23 date added: 2021/07/23 shelves:...

The Great Wall

author: Julia Lovell name: Kim average rating: 4.00 book published: 1981 rating: 4 read at: 2021/07/05 date added: 2021/07/05 shelves: review: The Great Wall as the metaphor of historyThe Chinese walls of many names, shrouded in myths and legend, the Great Wall is a...

The Poisonwood Bible

author: Barbara Kingsolver name: Kim average rating: 4.29 book published: 1998 rating: 4 read at: 2021/06/09 date added: 2021/06/09 shelves: review: Illuminating. Confronting. Well written.It took me a while to get used to the constantly changing vantage points of the...

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

author: Simon Winchester name: Kim average rating: 4.10 book published: 2021 rating: 4 read at: 2021/05/30 date added: 2021/06/01 shelves: review: A problem of the ages so well defined, missing solutionsSimon Winchester is a superb writer. His grasp of complex issues...

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