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The Winter Rose 43 reviews
Jennifer Donnelly
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2006
Great Read
I read The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly a couple years ago and loved it. I was excited to read The Winter Rose and was not disappointed. I enjoyed her first book better, but this one is definetely worth reading. I really enjoy the authors writing style and her stories are fascinating.
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Lords of the North
Bernard Cornwell
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
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Beneath the Bleeding3 reviews
Val McDermid
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
The ultimate affair
When Dr.Tony Hill is attacked by an axe wielding madman at the mental hospital where he works, he is forced to recover from the ensuing operation in hospital, grumpy at being unable to walk and unable to help DCI Carol Jordan in several cases in which she is involved. A local football hero has died from poison and shortly afterwards, a bomb is exploded at the football stadium, killing over 30 ...
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The Last Kindom100 reviews
Bernard Cornwell
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2005
My favorite author!
My favorite author!, August 25, 2008
I can't believe I'm 38 and just discovered Bernard Cornwell and his works.
I ordered 3 more of his books, passed book one to my father for his enjoyment, and intend to order all of his works eventually. Once I started reading I could not put it down. When I wasn't reading it I was thinking about it and telling the story to people I spoke to and ...
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Kingdom Come 5 reviews
James Graham Ballard
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
Ballard's most evocative for years
Kingdom Come
By J.G. Ballard
4th Estate/Harper Collins
In his astonishing new novel J.G. Ballard has discovered the apocalypse in the form of washing machines, stereo units and every other form of what his characters have dubbed, with both political and religious fervour, Consumerism.
Ballard's novels have often touched a nerve, from his erotic-schizoid Crash to his semi-autobiographical ...
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Teacher Man 2 reviews
Frank McCourt
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2006
Almost as Good As "Angela's Ashes"
McCourties of the world rejoice! You have nothing to lose but your tears of woe anticipating when he'd return with his next book; the foremost memoirist of our time is back. Frank McCourt's "Teacher Man" is a spellbinding lyrical ode to the craft of teaching. It is a rollicking, delightful trek across nearly thirty years in New York City public school classrooms that will surely please his devout ...
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Notes from an Exhibition 1 review
Patrick Gale
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2008
Sympathetic Storyteller
Britain's "most successful openly gay author" (this from OutUK.com) has written a book that has little to say about gayness, much to say about the impact of mental illness on a family, something to say about religion and its consolations, and much to say about sibling relationships. The book is artfully constructed, told through several voices. Gale portrays Rachel Kelly, an artist with four ...
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Resurrectionist 3 reviews
James McGee
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
Send Hawkwood...for action and suspense
The tag-line for this series "You don't send a gentleman to catch vermin. You send Hawkwood" and that about says it all, really.
It's action-packed, if somewhat patterned in it (open in the middle of the scene, go back to show reader how we got there, rinse and repeat with the next scene change). It's great at evoking the atmosphere - particularly the smell - of that era of London's history, ...
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Forget Me Not
Isabel Wolff
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
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Foul!
Andrew Jennings
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
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The Space Between Us90 reviews
Thrity Umrigar
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
"The Space Between" this and other bestselling novels......
The Space Between Us is quite an ambitious novel. The universal themes of gender roles, identity, class struggles, poverty, family bonds and love are pervasive, but it is written so eloquently and with such dynamic force that it supercedes the vast majority of bestselling fiction on bookstore shelves today.
This characters and circumstances of this novel could take place in any time and place ...
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Sword Song
Bernard Cornwell
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
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The Alexander Cipher2 reviews
Will Adams
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
A Terrific Debut Novel
Will Adams joined a Washington based firm of business history consultants, where he wrote a number of corporate histories and biographies. After working in London for a while, he resigned and sold his home to give himself the opportunity of fulfilling a lifelong ambition to become a writer. If this first novel is anything to go by he will achieve his ambition, with many more books to follow this ...
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Where There's a Will
Matt Beaumont
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
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The Boleyn Inheritance158 reviews
Philippa Gregory
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
Trying times for women
This book definetly demonstrates the trials and tribulations that woman in medieval England had to face. This book basically picks up where The Other Boleyn Girl left off, with the exception of pretty much skipping Henry's marriage to Jane Seymour. My only complaint is that Philippa skipped that queen.. In beginning of this story, she has died in child birth. Anne of Cleves, I cannot say enough ...
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Six Degrees
Mark Lynas
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2008
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The Fields of Grief
Giles Blunt
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2006
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Survival of the Sickest
Sharon Moalem
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
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Age-Proof Your Brain1 review
Tony Buzan
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
Another excellent book from Buzan
OK - first up: I have many of Buzan's books and I consider myself slightly biased to favourable reviews of his publications. However, that's not to say that, like a certain other lateral thinking person who will remain unnamed, his works can't sometimes feel slightly derivative of his earlier work.
Still, this new book - and I found it just recently by accident and am happy to provide first ...
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Muhammad
Karen Armstrong
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
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