by Susan Barnes | 31 Jul 2023 | Quoting Other Writers
For many years, I read and enjoyed Selwyn Hughes’ devotional books and this quote is from 10th February 2005. It’s as relevant to me today as when he first wrote it. We live with mystery and I, for one, don’t like it! Yet, I have to acknowledge it...
by Susan Barnes | 23 Jun 2023 | Book Reviews
Max is dismayed when he learns his school is participating in the Duke of Wellington challenge which involves three nights of camping. The principal expects his attendance. Fortunately, his three friends Joe, Lucy and Charlie (a nickname for Charlotte) are also...
by Susan Barnes | 9 Jun 2023 | Book Reviews
One hot summer, Dan has to endure the holidays alone with his mother in Somerset. His mother is an archaeologist and much to her delight, a 1000-year-old gravestone and some bones are found in the process of draining the local dam. Dan’s mother meets Cat, a local...
by Susan Barnes | 19 May 2023 | Book Reviews
The Man Who Died Twice is the second book in the Thursday Murder Club Mystery series. The story begins with Elizabeth receiving a mysterious letter, which she later shares with the other members of the Murder Club: Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron who are all in their seventies...
by Susan Barnes | 5 Dec 2022 | Short Devotion
“Beyond all question, the mystery from which true godliness springs is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory.” 1 Timothy 3:16 Christian...
by Susan Barnes | 24 Apr 2022 | Short Devotion
“I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows—was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell.” 2 Corinthians 12:3-4 There’s much we don’t know about the heavenly realm,...
by Susan Barnes | 11 Nov 2021 | Book Reviews
I was delighted to discover that author Nancy Springer has written another book in the Enola Holmes series entitled, Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche. It’s the seventh in the series. In a clever touch, the prologue and epilogue are written from Sherlock Holmes’...
by Susan Barnes | 17 Jun 2021 | Book Reviews
The Thursday Murder Club is a clever debut novel (and I wouldn’t expect anything less from Osman!). The story begins by introducing the Thursday Murder Club which is a group of four elderly people who live in a luxury retirement village in England and meet weekly to...
