The Death of Bees
A Novel

What on earth is happening to the bees? They say it is an ecological disaster, an environmental holocaust. Every day I wonder what the blazes can be causing this abuse of our ecosystem. Chemicals I hear, pesticides. I don’t understand it, really I don’t. Our planet faces extinction and yet nobody......more

LOVED this book. It's told in vignettes from the point of view of two sisters and a neighbor. It takes place in Glasgow Scotland, and the two sisters, 15 and 12 are basically neglected children of drug addicts. The story opens with the older sister explaining that the Dad died one night, and the Mo......more

Lisa O’Donnell’s The Death of Bees is a really good read for a debut novel. It is not a happy tale. It is a grim, raw, sad and thought-provoking story. It’s a really quick read, a book that you would read in a few hours because you can’t help but keep turning the pages to find out what happens next.......more

Colin Pie here, standing in for the financial liability and tantric lovemaster MJ Nicholls. I received a postcard from him this morning. He says he tried to send me a text message but he was stuck up a hill. I also received a telegram from him this morning explaining he tried to send a postcard but......more

After I Capture the Castle, which was, darlings, frankly a complete disahster, what do I do but pick up another novel narrated mostly by a teenage girl. However, this one was a turtle of a different complexion. Indeed, it was rather wonderful. So, here we have a novel about miserable scummy British (......more