RLB’s weekly recommendations
Every week a postcard pops into Ellie’s mailbox. Each is from the same person and picture a different place in Greece. They are just signed ‘A’ and addressed to a previous occupant of Ellie’s dull basement flat. She is attracted to the colourful, country scenes and the enigmatic messages the postcards contain. With no possibility … Continue reading Book of the Week, September 2nd 2017
I don’t know how many brushes with death the average person has in a lifetime but Maggie O’Farrell has certainly had more than her fair share. This unusual memoir is the award-winning novelist’s first book of non-fiction – each chapter examines one episode in her own life when the grim reaper came close to claiming … Continue reading Book of the Week, August 26th, 2017
John Constable is the painter most famously associated with Suffolk but another Suffolk artist, Thomas Gainsborough, inspired the young Constable. Born the son of a weaver in Sudbury, Gainsborough soon impressed with his drawing and painting skills and as a young teenager he was sent to London to study art. As he grew older his … Continue reading Book of the Week, August 19th 2017
It is New Year and the Shaw family are holidaying in a small Peak district village. When thirteen-year-old Rebecca fails to return from a walk in the hills the hours pass and concern grows for her safety. The villagers band together to help search the moors but as journalists and TV crews descend on the … Continue reading Book of the Week, August 12th 2017
Alan Marshall has a passion for art, landscape and natural history. Together with his wife, Marion, he also runs a small independent publisher based in Norfolk who specialise in beautifully designed art books. This volume is a rare treat. It examines the county of Suffolk through the work of 38 different printmakers, each bringing a … Continue reading Book of the Week, August 5th 2017
Beneath the city streets of Norwich lies a subterranean world of tunnels, many dating back to the chalk and flint mines of early mediaeval times. Not all of the tunnel system has been fully explored or mapped. This provides a wonderfully creepy background for the latest murder mystery featuring forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway, who … Continue reading Book of the Week, July 29th 2017