Book Reviews

The following books have been read and recommended by members of Suffolk Book League. The submissions are written by members and like many people, we're always keen to get a good recommendation.

If you are a member of Suffolk Book League and want to submit a summary of what you have been reading, please email info@suffolkbookleague.org. We'd be delighted to hear from you.

World War Two: A People’s War

Reviewed by Brian Morron by John Ellison (Manifesto Press: 2023) Following on from his alternative history of 1918, Censorship Overruled...

The Outrun

Reviewed by Jeff Taylor by Amy Liptrot (Canongate Books: 2016) I noticed Amy Liptrot’s memoir The Outrun when it was first published....

Sweat

Reviewed by Gill Lowe (Hutchinson Heinemann : 2024) by Emma Healey Ten years ago Emma Healey published her Costa-winning debut, Elizabeth...

Pathways

Reviewed by Aimee Piper by Katie Ward (Fleet: 2024) Set in the disparate worlds of Las Vegas and Cambridge, Katie Ward’s second novel,...

Old God’s Time

Reviewed by Dymphna Crowe by Sebastian Barry (Faber and Faber: 2023) I first read Old God’s Time when it appeared on the 2023 Booker...

Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe

Reviewed by Tricia Gilbey by Ian Collins (John Murray: 2024) Once, standing next to Ronnie Blythe in Wormingford church, I longed to find...

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

Reviewed by Rose Gant Maggie O’Farrell (Tinder Press: 2013) Members of the Suffolk Book League will be no strangers to the works of...

This Tale is Forbidden

Reviewed by James Phillips Polly Crosby ( Scholastic: 2024) Everyone knows the timeless classics that are fairy tales, but their origins...

Yellowface

Reviewed by Janet Bayliss R. F. Kuang (The Borough Press: 2023) This is a book by a young and very clever American author (27 at the...

Latch

Reviewed by Amber Spalding Rebecca Goss (Carcanet Press: 2023) Latch by Rebecca Goss is a poignant and finely crafted poetry collection...

Darling

Reviewed by Tricia Gilbey India Knight (PRH Fig Tree: 2022) I must start with a confession. I have only ever read the beginning of Nancy...

The Garden Against Time

Reviewed by Jeff Taylor Olivia Laing (Picador: 2024) I’ve been a fan of the writer Olivia Laing since attending a Suffolk Book League...

The Walled Garden

Reviewed by James Phillips (Manilla Press: 2023) by Sarah Hardy There’s a lot to be said about how nature and, in turn, gardens can help...

In Bloom

Reviewed by Aimee Piper (Simon & Schuster: 2023) by Eva Verde ‘Delph breathes in, her mother suddenly all around her. Their strange...

The Unwomanly Face of War: an Oral History of Women in World War II

Reviewed by Dymphna Crowe (Penguin Modern Classics: 2017) by Svetlana Alexievich. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky...

The Captain's Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song

Reviewed by Keith Jones (Random House: 2022) by Caroline Davison This book, chosen as the winner of the New Angle Prize awarded in 2023,...

Brian Morron’s Desert Island Books

I couldn’t resist the invitation to choose my eight Desert Island Books, but I soon realised what a tough task it was. How to select only...

East Jerusalem Noir

Reviewed by Dymphna Crowe Edited by Jarjoura Burbara (Akashic Books Brooklyn New York 2023) I often browse the shelves of the excellent...

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