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People Like Ourselves 1 review
Pamela Jooste
Doubleday UK, 2003
The concerns of a family shaken by scandal and change
Julie's prized position in South African high society is threatened when her husband, a serial adulterer, receives a visit from an ex-wife who is coming to visit Nelson Mandela. With People Like Ourselves, Pamela Jooste presents a stunning survey of modern African society in South Africa and the concerns of a family shaken by scandal and change.
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The French Kitchen: a Cook Book~Joanne Harris; Fran Warde1 review
Joanne Harris; Fran Warde
Doubleday UK, 2002
One of my favourite cookbooks.
As an inveterate buyer, reader and user of cookbooks I found this book one of the best that I've recently used. Living as I do in Australia, it was released here for the Christmas season of '02 and was not at the time available for comment through Amazon so I was pleased to see it listed today when I had a check. It is a first-rate cookbook and I'm sure those that use it's recipes will be happy ...
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Clean Break5 reviews
Jacqueline Wilson
Doubleday UK, 2005
Clean Break - HaWi
This story is about a young family. There is an older sister called Emily and she has a brother called Maxies but her sister Vita is their step sister. Vita has a really cool Dad who is married to Emily's mum. Unfortunately one Christmas they break up. Emily then tries to get them back together by planning day trips that never go right. Jacqueline Wilson has described in great detail all of ...
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Lilla's Feast: A True Story of Love, War, and a Passion for Food1 review
Frances Osborne
Doubleday UK, 2004
The Life of a British Woman in the Orient
Lilla's Feast" describes a time not so very long ago that seems impossibly distant. The world-wide expansion of European colonialism in the 19th century caused thousands of people, especially British, to seek their fortunes in the colonies and the trading emporiums in the exotic East, especially India and China. Lilla, the great-grandmother of the author was one of them. She was born in Chefoo, ...
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Let's Play: A Touch and Feel Board Book (Touch & Feel Book)1 review
Gina Ford
Doubleday UK, 2007
Let's Play
Lovely illustrations with simple colours to attract young children. My son loves these books and always chooses these before bedtime.
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On The Farm: A Touch and Feel Book (Touch & Feel Book)1 review
Gina Ford
Doubleday UK, 2007
On the Farm
A great time bed time story for my son, he sleeps with this book. He loves to touch things and this has lovely illustrations with bright colours. We do the animal sounds which is fun as well.
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The Life of Birds1 review
Quentin Blake
Doubleday UK, 2005
Divine drawing
Quentin Blake has always had an uncanny empathy with all of the natural world, silly humans included. This book sees him flying high-- past the limits of the glorious natural drawer he has always been. If you love the form and material of books, birds, people, and wonderful drawing, you will sigh when you open these pages.
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Katey: The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter1 review
Lucinda Hawksley
Doubleday UK, 2006
Great review of the whole Dickens family as well as Kate
I preordered this book after hearing a lecture by Lucinda Hawksley. It met all my expectations and more. It is easy to read and very informative. She uses great references and is able to access and read actual correspondence which really helps accuracy and interest. I recommend this book to anyone interested in Charles Dickens. BRAVO!
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Pumpkin Soup Board Book26 reviews
Helen Cooper
Doubleday UK, 2007
Warm, FUNNY, great illustrations - family favorite
I did not know the extent to which my daughter would come to love this book when I purchased it. Had I known, I would have found a hardcover edition. Let me just say, this is the first book that my almost 4 year old memorized (word for word). This is the first book that my 9 year old will go to when he wants to read to her (e.g. he wants to read it and needs an excuse).
It is a warm tale ...
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Unknown Soldier, The1 review
Neil Hanson
Doubleday UK, 2005
War With a Human Voice
Pointless to the point of idiocy to say this is a book all politicians and their cronies should read, as it tells a story whose horror has been repeated in various ways for the past 100 years... Nonetheless, this is an extraordinary, heartbreaking & very beautiful book that should be read by everybody for its recounting of war experiences through ordinary, human eyes. The First World War is ...
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In Arabian Nights 12 reviews
Tahir Shah
Doubleday UK, 2008
Wonderful
This latest of Tahir Shah's books brings to mind his father's own works, though clearly from a different and unique person with the gentle wisdom of his father housed in an apparently mad, obsessed adventurer. Surfaces are often misleading, and underneath the funny, interesting, exciting, puzzling, touching surface of this book is a way of seeing and feeling and experiencing that is wonderful.
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Sleepy Time: A Lift-the-Flap Book (Touch & Feel Book)1 review
Gina Ford
Doubleday UK, 2007
Sleepy time - Gina Ford
My son loves this book, he only wants Gina Fords books with their simple colours and different kinds of patches he can touch. Great for bed time story time. If it's a hit with my son it's a hit with me.
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Clash of the Sky Galleons (Edge Chronicles)6 reviews
Paul Stewart
Doubleday UK, 2006
one of the best book Series ever !!!!
if you ask me this is one of the best book series ever read and iv'e read a lot of other books series like th golden compeass and eragon and i would definetly say that these books are much better, i would say that it just as good or better thay books like harry potter and the chronicles of Narnia. but i would note that i think that i would have liked to see more of an overall story, and a little ...
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The Dark Bride3 reviews
Laura Restrepo
Doubleday UK, 2003
Magical journalism?
When I flipped this book over and saw that the blurbs on the back were by Isabel Allende and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I knew this was going to be the book I read next. The form of this book is journalistic--the narrator is a reporter doing research into the life of a mysterious and legendary young prostitute named Sayonara. Because the stories come filtered through the reporter and her interviews, ...
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Delicious!4 reviews
Helen Cooper
Doubleday UK, 2006
A fine, different story of sharing.
It's lunchtime in the old white cabin but Cat, Duck and Squirrel haven't got a ripe pumpkin for the Pumpkin Soup in Helen Cooper's Delicious! Can they substitute something else? There are possibilities, but Duck won't consider them - so how can they find a new dish to share? Recipes and fun culinary insights abound in a fine, different story of sharing.
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Wintersmith81 reviews
Terry Pratchett
Doubleday UK, 2006
Another great Terry Pratchett book
This is another book in Terry Pratchett's series on the Discworld - a flat world, supported on the backs of four massive elephants riding on the back of a planet-sized turtle, anything hilarious can happen here, and eventually does.
In this sequel to A Hat Full of Sky and The Wee Free Men, young Tiffany Aching's apprenticeship in witchcraft get interrupted when she is taken to see the dancing ...
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You Choose!1 review
Pippa Goodhart
Doubleday UK, 2003
Fabulous Book!
My son get's two books read to him every night, and since buying this book, he ALWAYS chooses this, plus one other! He loves the interactiveness of it and the fact that he can ask mummy or daddy what THEY would choose to eat, wear, do for a living! A great, great book that gets imaginations working overtime!
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Hitler's Canary6 reviews
Sandi Toksvig
Doubleday UK, 2005
Ordinary Danes exhibit extraordinary courage during WWII
The not so well known story of how the Danes managed to save most of Denmark's Jews from deportation to death camps is told through the eyes of a 12 year-old. Bamse the son of a dramatic actress and a timid artist is not Jewish but, his best friend Anton is. Demark was not only out gunned but also grossly out numbered by the German invaders. Other than sabotage there was no way they could defend ...
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Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go to Sleep33 reviews
Joyce Dunbar
Doubleday UK, 2007
Adorable book for siblings
My kids love this book, especially when I replace the bunnies names with my kids' names. It's an adorable story about how an older sibling makes an effort to comfort his little sister and she returns the love. Very sweet with "cuddly" illustrations. Perfect for bedtime!
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