On the Friday 19th June residents of Burton had their first brewery trip to Butcombe Brewery in Wrington near Bristol. It was a lovely event organised by Dave Warburton of the Old House @ Home and Missy Sell. It is Read more…
The Heat of Betrayal by Douglas Kennedy The publisher’s blurb: Robin knew Paul wasn’t perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true. In the heady strangeness of Morocco, Read more…
At 1pm on Monday 1st June 2015 the new bench situated at The Triangle in Burton was officially declared as open for use. The dedication ceremony was conducted by Cllr Jane Scott (Leader of Wiltshire Council), Terri Hayes Pugh (Cotswold Read more…
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay First with your head and then with your heart . . . So says Hoppie Groenwald, boxing champion, to a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world. Read more…
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie’s Tokyo apartment. When he Read more…
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” From its haunting first line to its famous closer, “Reader, I married him”, Charlotte Brontë takes her audience by the throat with a fierce Read more…
We are all completely beside ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone – vanished from her life. Read more…
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014 Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless Read more…
Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary eccentricity and declining health. But Dombey also has a daughter, Read more…
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd The struggle of 19th-century abolitionist and women’s rights pioneer Sarah Grimké is at the heart of Sue Monk Kidd’s powerful new historical novel. Set – like her bestselling debut, The Secret Life Read more…