Book of the Week: ‘The Fireman’
The FiremanJoe Hill2016, 768 pagesSetting: Post-apocalpytic New HampshireFiction No one knows how you contract the Dragonscale. One day, you’re fine, and the next the whorls of black and gold adorn your skin and you are at risk of setting yourself aflame. Nurse Harper Grayson is hoping to hold out against the spore long enough to have her baby, but the odds aren’t in her favor. When her husband tries to kill her, she flees to the...
Book of the Week: ‘A Court of Mist and Fury’
A Court of Mist and FurySarah J. Maas2016, 626 pagesFantasyHaving broken the curse and won her love back, Feyre should be living her happily ever after. At home in the Spring Court, she’s treated like a princess – and left in a gilded cage. Only a bargain she didn’t want to make (which saved her life more than once – even if she didn’t want it to) can free her.It’s not just the Spring Court that’s hiding behind masks, as Feyre is...
Book of the Week: ‘A Square Meal’
A square meal: A culinary history of the Great DepressionJane Ziegelman2016, 336 pagesNonfiction Before the 1920s, American cuisine was characterized by home-made and regional dishes on farms and in the country while in the cities, quick food prepared by others was the norm. In A Square Meal, Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe chronicle how the Great Depression sparked a movement towards a homogenized cuisine that was based on speed,...
Book of the Week: ‘Wolf Story’
Wolf StoryWilliam McCleery2012, 82 pages Genre: Children’s Five-year-old Michael asks his father for a story; he’s addicted to stories, especially ones with wolves in them. Michael’s father makes up a story about a wolf who is defeated by a clever hen named Rainbow. Then comes along young Jimmy Tractorwheel (an excellent name for a farmer’s son, don’t you think?) who outwits Waldo the wolf at every turn.It’s a charming story that...
Book of the Week: ‘How to be a Tudor’
How to be a Tudor: A dawn-to-dusk guide to Tudor life Ruth Goodman 2016, 336 pages Setting: Tudor England Ruth Goodman is back, and living life as a Tudor. After a previous stint living like a Victorian (How to be a Victorian), she goes back further in time to explore how the English people of the 1500s lived. Recreating the conditions of the period (from how beds were constructed to the different type of wheat that they ate), she...
