Yesterday, I confined myself to barracks completely. I admit, I felt sorry for poor Vince who just got play and runs in the back garden instead of a good long hike as usual; but if […]
Category: Book reviews
54. ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ by Hilary Mantel.
O. M. G. This series is amazing, I had honestly forgotten how much I enjoyed it, and I cannot recommend it highly enough! Just to recap, I re-read ‘Wolf Hall’ and then this prior to […]
53: ‘Wolf Hall’, by Hilary Mantel
Before I started writing this, I popped on to Goodreads to find some reviews from people that did not enjoy it, because I knew there had to be some. Hilary Mantel’s style of writing is […]
52. ‘Black-eyed Susans’ by Julie Heaberlin.
I am still working my way through ‘Wolf Hall’, enjoying every minute of it, but it isn’t one to be skipped through if one wants to really experience Hilary Mantel’s Tudor world…so you’ll have to […]
51. ‘The Little Friend’ by Donna Tartt
The photo above is the message Mum wrote in the front of this copy when she sent it to me in Australia in 2003. Published in 2002, ten long years of waiting since Mum and […]
50. ‘The Female of the Species’ by Lionel Shriver.
‘Still unattached and childless at the age of 59, world renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible – and untouchable. Returning to make a documentary at the site of her first great triumph in Kenya, […]
49. ‘The Stationery Shop of Tehran’, by Marjan Kamali.
Not one of Mum’s books, but one I bought in the airport at Brisbane for the long flight back to the UK at the end of January last. The cover design caught my eye – […]
48. ‘The Ghost Road’ by Pat Barker – Vol.III of the Regeneration Trilogy.
The final volume in what both Mum and I considered to be one of the best series of books ever written about the First World War. ‘The Ghost Road’ is a magnificent conclusion, focusing very […]
47. ‘War and Peace’ by Leo Tolstoy
There is nothing I can say about this wonderful book that has not been said before, so instead, I’m going to tell you two stories. First, mine. The original TV adaptation aired on the BBC […]
46. ‘I am Pilgrim’ by Terry Hayes.
What a book! If you like a good thriller, you will love this – it is non stop action from the beginning to the end, and I found it very hard to put down. Mum […]
