Book Review 26a by Diana Evans

by Clare Thompson, Learner Resource Centre Assistant
26a is the story of a Nigerian-English family in London. Identical twins Georgia and Bessi are the "Middle Child", who inhabit the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue, the eponymous "26a". With a sister on either side, they move through childhood and adolescence with increasingly differing views of the world.  Their [...]

Review: No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod

Book Review: No Great Mischief
Hugh Beattie
 
I had heard mixed reviews of this from other readers and thus I did not expect a page-turner. Although this novel meanders all over the place, I did enjoy it for the following reasons: it paints a fine picture of island/highland life both here in Scotland & also in Canada.  [...]

Review: Reading ‘Lolita’ in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

by Hugh Beattie, Clydebank College Library Manager 
It is essential that books like this are written, so that we can take stock of our lives & enjoy the freedoms that we so often take for granted. This novel describes an underground world much like life under the soviets in e.g. the old Czechoslovakia.   This is a [...]