This book is really beautifully bound if you get the hard cover edition. It's soft blue, with embossed gold flowers on the cover, and a swathed Victorian lady pictured in the centre. Perhaps it's slightly beside the point, but I do love a the pleasure of reading a beautifully bound volume. Kate Summerscale once again …
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The second book in the Black Parade series, Jordan and the angel Michael are finally together, but when Seers all over the world start to turn up dead, they must work together and team up with the demon Belial to stop the end of the world. With Belial intent on destroying their relationship and a …
If you've read Cold Comfort Farm you'll be familiar with Stella Gibbons. She wrote about 25 books, of which it was her most well known work, and though forgotten for many years, she's having a bit of a revival lately. Written in 1938, Nightingale Wood is a romance set in Essex. It largely follows Viola, a …
The second book about Winter Agent Juno, this was sent to me by the author to review and share with you. When Juno is informed of the death of her estranged mother through suicide, she is compelled to head back to her home town to find out what happened and face the past. But no …
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OK, they're actually just for seeing more distant things, so I won't be wearing them all the time. But it makes me laugh because it means when I'm watching a movie, I have to wear them. So now I'm a card carrying movie nerd. lol. I've always thought that glasses were pretty stylish, so I'm …
Perhaps this book really needs no introduction, like many classic pieces of literature. It has had two major movie adaptations, and was for a long time required reading on school book lists, so it's widely known and loved. It's the story of 14 year old Mattie Ross, a determined teen who lives in frontier territory. …
Back in December last year, I was contacted by an author who asked me to read and review her book Like A Closed Fist. I really liked the book, which is about the sexual escapades and search for love by a 24 year old girl. It's a book about romance, and how it can go …
Continue reading Guest Post and Book Giveaway! Four Guys Not To Date with Author E H Nolan.
In Zoe Heller's introduction to this novel, she makes the point that people either love or hate a Mitford novel. I wonder if that's really true? The Mitford sisters grew up in a rag tag bundle, on a manor in England, the children of Upper Class parents, in the early part of last century. Nancy, …
There are days when it's raining or or nights when it's chilly and you just want to curl up with a bestseller, easy read thriller. You could do a lot worse than this one. It's one of those books that gets labelled as the next Girl On The Train. And perhaps that's about right. I …
Alice Blackwell is America's First Lady, wife of the US President. But first, she was Alice Lindgren, a normal American girl. She grew up in the suburbs, with her parents, an only child, and her grandmother, an outspoken woman who loved to read. She experienced tragedy early, and went on to become a librarian at …
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