Category: Book Reviews – Adults

  • The Secret Life of Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay

    The Secret Life of Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay

    The Secret Life of Bletchley Park is a history of the codebreaking unit throughout WW2. It is written for the general reader, so avoids technical code-breaker jargon and instead concentrates […]

  • Junk by Melvin Burgess

    Junk by Melvin Burgess

    If you’re looking for a nice easy read, then this Isn’t the book for you. This drags you down to the dirty under belly of the Bristol streets. Two teenagers, […]

  • Cane Warriors by Alex Wheatle

    Cane Warriors by Alex Wheatle

    Cane Warriors is a powerful and fast paced book which explores the true story of slavery and the slave uprising in Jamaica in the 1760s. If you don’t know the […]

  • A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee

    A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee

    This crime story was recommended to me by a colleague and I am glad that he did. The story is set in 1920’s India, at the height of the British […]