Archive for the ‘Fiction’ Category
Sunday, November 4th, 2007
A Liverpool Lass
Katie Flynn
isbn: 0-09-942999-3
Any fan of Katie Flynn’s work will know what to expect from this
book.
It has many of the usual ingredients of the typical family saga;
poverty,
wealthy benefactor, cruel landlord, illegitimate child and a mystery to
be
solved.
This one begins in Liverpool in late 1905 when a ...
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
I have a confession to make. I love sci fi, especially pulp type sci
fi, and
the hey dey of the pulp era being the 40's-60's, it is perhaps no great
surprise that many of my favourite science fiction writers came out of
that
era. One such grandmaster of science fiction was ...
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
This classic storybook was first released in 1942, as part of the 12 book launch of the famous Little Golden Books line of books for young children published by American publisher Simon and Schuster. It has remained in print ever since, having the copyright renewed by the publisher last in ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Dorothy L Sayers - Strong Poison
Harriet Vane, a renowned author of crime fiction, is languishing in
prison
for the murder by poison of her ex-lover. Lord Peter Wimsey is
convinced
that she had nothing to do with the murder. However, initial
investigation
shows that the odds are stacked against Harriet. Can Wimsey, and his
sidekicks - Bunter, ...
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
Having finished the first book in the series, Aberystwwyth Mon Amour,
in a single sitting, I was practically salivating to start the second book.
Luckily for me we had been given all three books in the series at the
same time, so I was able to indulge post haste. Having enjoyed the first
book ...
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
There's no disputing it, Josephine Cox tells a good story. At the beginning of this one, which looks like a bit of an epic when you
realise it comprises almost 600 pages, I was unsure for a couple of chapters whether it was going to be readable or not. ...
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Here is my book review on a great Anna Jacoba novel, 'our lizzie'..
i found this one, as with many of this sort of book hard to put down, i often find that reading this sort of book that you enjoy as much as i did this, you can actually picture ...
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
I have to say this is one of the funniest and engrossing books I have read in a few years. I literally sat gripped until i read this in one sitting, the tea beside me growing cold.
This is the debut novel of malcolm pryce. A Uk born citizen, he ...
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Pride and Predjudice is quite rightly classed nowadays as a classic. It became popular again following the dramatisation and serialisation which came to our television screens a few years ago. However it is a book I have read many times and which I loved years before it was shown on ...
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
I loved this book, I love all Meg Hutchinson ones ive ever read, and catherine cookson...theyre quite similar...here is my review on sixpenny girl, this one stuck in my head for a while after reading and left me wandering what happened to Saran ? its funny when books do that.
Saran ...
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