Book Reviews
14:07 - 28 August 2008
IT is 1985 and 16-year-old Eddy Nugent is living in Manchester and bored out of his mind. On a whim he decides to join the British Army. Overnight he leaves the relative sanity of Civvie Street and falls headlong into the lunatic parallel world that is b... Full Story »
09:51 - 28 August 2008
IF you re used to the modern, high science world of Patricia Cornwell, Dr Siri Paiboun may come as a shock. Unlike the heroine of Cornwell s forensic whodunits, Siri is elderly, ill-equipped and hampered by living under the Communist regime of Laos in the... Read More »
12:31 - 26 August 2008
Clarissa s Comfort Food – Clarissa Dickson Wright CLARISSA Dickson Wright of Two Fat Ladies television fame returns with a cookbook entitled Clarissa s Comfort Food. The book contains one hundred comforting recipes, which are designed to restore body an... Read More »
09:42 - 21 August 2008
The queen of chick lit is back with yet another gripping tale. But if you don t want your life disrupted don t pick up this book because once opened, it s hard to put down. It follows one charming man and his connection to four women and traces the stor... Read More »
12:28 - 20 August 2008
WRITTEN in a compelling style by award-winning journalist Tina Brown, The Diana Chronicles is more than the story of the ill-fated Princess of Wales. It examines the relationship between the press, the public and the monarchy and how it changed between 19... Read More »
13:19 - 18 July 2008
A SOLITARY man, who chooses to live life alone and gets much enjoyment from his environment, has his world turned upside down when he finds a child washed up on a beach, still alive. Set in Cornwall, Swift s first novel paints powerful images of the Corni... Read More »
11:24 - 16 July 2008
EVERYONE it seems has a story to tell about the famous Waverley women! For generation s they have lived in the same house with a mysterious walled garden that blooms all year round. Every Waverley woman is somehow touched by magic. Claire is the latest ke... Read More »
09:49 - 10 July 2008
THIS book is a bit annoying. It s like listening to an 80s album by Miles Davis or Bob Dylan – all the skill and passion is there but the arrangement has gone awry. Sedaris is certainly insightful with a... Read More »
12:50 - 09 July 2008
IT S TEMPTING to say that this is the perfect holiday read because it is so easy to get into and so absorbing once you do but actually it would be a brilliant book to curl up with in winter too. Clare Chambers knows how to tell a tale. This is a rather tw... Read More »
09:30 - 03 July 2008
THERE can be few sisters to match the Mitfords. The six girls, born between 1904 and 1920, had everything to keep the gossips mesmerised. They were aristocrats, the daughters of the eccentric 2nd Baron Redesdale and his w... Read More »