BBC Radio Suffolk book club reviews
Listed in title order order by date
An unusual and sophisticated picture book about making a difference.
Date selected: 11th November 2013
A book for children
A thoughtful and thought-provoking novel about love, sacrifice, contentment and acceptance.
Date selected: 12th November 2013
Enduring a soul-destroying job pulping books, a man saves random pages from destruction and reads them out loud to fellow commuters on his morning train journey. One day he stumbles across the pages of a diary...
Date selected: 7th November 2017
A novel about loss and separation, and the eternal power of storytelling to help us survive. Discussing the book on Tues 4 Sept, at 2.30pm.
with Graham Barnard this month
Date selected: 31st July 2018
A feel-good saga of family, friendship and love set in Italy and America in the 1920s.
Date selected: 22nd May 2012
An amazing book of plants, exploration, science, romance and magic in the nineteenth century, centred around a fascinating and inspiring heroine.
Date selected: 10th August 2014
A dark, amusing, wry and quirky tale of a woman who opens a utopian nursery school.
Date selected: 26th November 2012
Date selected: 8th January 2019
Date selected: 7th March 2017
Date selected: 27th October 2014
Harold Fry goes out to post a letter and doesn't stop walking. This is a wonderful, uplifting and life-affirming story everyone should read!
Date selected: 9th July 2012
A powerful, compelling and moving tale of three generations.
Date selected: 28th February 2016
A powerful, shocking and moving story of war and survival.
Date selected: 9th February 2015
A book for children
Best-selling American author, John Grisham has written his first book for children with this tale of Theodore Boone, a 13-year-old who can't wait until he can become a lawyer.
Date selected: 8th August 2011
A book for children
These diaries of a junior doctor have been described as 'hilarious and heartbreaking'. What will we all think?
including the author
Date selected: 5th June 2018
A magical poem about Christmas
Date selected: 6th December 2016
Four stories interlinked to tell different facets of the life of the endangered Siberian tiger.
Date selected: 1st December 2020
A beautiful, astonishing, sensual account of long, hot summers on Martha's Vineyard where life is ruptured by betrayal and deception.
Date selected: 19th April 2013
Date selected: 19th March 2012
A gothic novel with a disturbing and haunting Suffolk setting. A brilliantly atmospheric and sinister read.
Date selected: 5th November 2019