Why Won't My Teenager Talk to Me?

Why Won't My Teenager Talk to Me? by John Coleman is the first Parenting book that I manage to complete after a couple of false starts. My daughter is 12, so she's not quite there yet. The book is a very broad subject, it's difficult to take on board a lot of it, and I doubt many people will keep this by their bedside for when they have a problem to consult. In reality what I got from it was to listen and understand more. 5/10

Dead Simple

After months spent in non-fiction I returned to the fiction shelves for a book of short stories called Dead Simple. This crime selection was quite strong and of the 8 stories 5 were good, 2 were average and only 1 was bad. 7/10