by Gudrun Bowers | Nov 27, 2015 | Book review
Every winter, when the first snow falls, Pearl makes a snow girl, a snow sister. It doesn’t bring her real sister back, but for a while, she misses Agnes a little less. This Christmas Eve, a mysterious letter brings the promise of a change in fortune for Pearl’s hard-...
by Gudrun Bowers | Nov 27, 2015 | Book review
A joyous Christmas story! As well as being a best-selling writer for adults, Matt Haig is a gifted spinner of yarns for younger readers, and in this charming novel he tells the merry tale of how a young Finnish boy called Nikolas becomes the Father Christmas we know...
by Gudrun Bowers | Nov 26, 2015 | Event
Steyning High Street Late Night Christmas Shopping evening – Wednesday 2nd December 6-9pm 2015 There is no better way to kick-start your festive season than by coming along to the annual Steyning late-night shopping evening! We are all really...
by Gudrun Bowers | Nov 6, 2015 | Book review
A quite extraordinary contemporary take on the ‘apologue’ (a moral fable with animal characters) by a Toronto-based Trinidadian author, ‘Fifteen Dogs’ begins in a bar, like so many strange stories. The gods Hermes and Apollo, drunkenly arguing about what would happen...
by Gudrun Bowers | Nov 6, 2015 | Book review
The Whitshanks like to think they are special, as families do. They take great pride in their handyman skills, their stories, imagine that others see a close knit clan and wish they were part of it. This may be true, but Anne Tyler’s portrait of a middle-class...
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