And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

I read this in December 2016. It was the Lawshall Book Club January choice.

From the author of the Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

A story of a brother and sister form Afghanistan, inseparable, yet separated.  The girl sold to a rich family.  The plot revolves round their life stories, the story of teh house Pari was sold to, the life of a greek boy who leaves home and becomes a plastic surgeon in California, who volunteers to work on victims of the troubles in Afghanistan and stays in that house...

Beautifully written , heart rending, superb...
10/10

At The Edge of the Orchard by Tracey Chevalier

I read this December 2016
I was given it for the charity bokshelf at work, so bought it to read.

et in the 1800's in America, it follows the misdaventures of the Goodenough family, peasant farmers, whose son heads off to Califonia. 
A lot of research about trees and tree collecting. I leant a lot!

Another good book , I do like this author
9/10

The Taxidermist's Daughter by Kate Mosse

I read this in November 2016
I brought this in the summer in Waterstones and have only just got round to reading it!
A story of floods and ghosts and murders
Definitely the sort of book I like
A really good spooky read
10/10

Lifeguard by James Petterson & Andrew Gross

I read this November 2016 as I was on holiday and it was left on the bookshelf at the condo by one of our guests.
All I can say it was an ideal holiday read, short chapters, not too taxing...
About a man working as a lifegurad in Florida, who becomes involved in an Art robbery...and the FBI agent investigating it...

Soul of Descretion by Susan Hill

I read this book October 2016 I saw it in a charity shop and as it was a Susan Hill I couldn't resist buying it .
Another of the Simon Serrailler detective novels (the latest I think) Usual mixture of beautiful prose and strong plot line.
Simon goes undercover, a nasty child abuse case.  In the meantime the family is falling apart, his father rapes a woman, she is not believed. Simons girlfriend starts a business venture with one of the peple Simon is investigating...
A true Susan Hill book
10/10

Mary Poppins by P.L.Travers

I read this October 2016
I saw this in a charty shop, had never read it and had only a few weeks before been talking to my Brother in law about the story as he had been to see the stage musical 3 times...
What can I say - a lovely, sweely written book, showing what life was like and what a fantasy life could be like in Englad at the turn of teh last century for children.
Delightful!
9/10

Slaughterhouse 5

I read this October 2016, it was the November 2016 book for the Regency book Club. 
Another good choice!
 This is a strange book, written non linear - it (and the hero Billy Pilgrim) travels back and forth in time.  Billy had been a prisoner of war in Dresden at the time of the bombings... The book goies back and forth and comes back to the dreadful blitzing of Dresden several times.
Billy sees his own life lived over and over, is abducted by aliems, lands back in Dresden, nothing is as it seems and he knows what's going to happen in the future and that the past cannot be changed as it exists at all times and recurrs in all eternitity
My type of book!

9/10