Crossing the Lines that Divide Us by Nick Hayes 'The trespasser is the bogeyman of property, the personification of the threat to the cult of exclusion. By refusing to accept the rules of what Locke called “the foundation of all democracy”, the trespasser is the antithesis of natural order, a lunatic, left-wing opponent to common …
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Sentenced
by MJ Whelan ' "It silly. Me have to close my eyes. Mummy do funny thing with her nose and white powder." Freya sat upright, then pressed her index finger to her nostril and sniffed. "She do it before going out. Mummy don't know, but me cheat ..... Me didn't shut eyes." ' In MJ …
Dark Matters (2)
The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman Volumes 2 and 3 The Secret Commonwealth The Rose Field Volume 2 of Pullman's new trilogy raises the same kind of questions as Volume 1. It's a great story for readers who know what's going on. However, I did wonder if Sir Philip did enough to attract new …
Dark Matters
The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman A Review Thirty years have passed since Philip Pullman thrilled a generation of teenagers - and many adults too - with Northern Lights, the first volume of his trilogy, His Dark Materials. Readers of the latter will recall that the story resolved satisfactorily at the end of the …
A Song of the Sea
The Wager by David Grann A Review 'Yet the Pacific did not live up to its peaceful name. As the Wager headed north off the coast of Chile, all the previous storms seemed to have combined into one climatic fury...... Cheap relentlessly drove the men onward - drove them even as they dumped overboard a …
Alias Grace
by Margaret Atwood A review In November 1843 at a Toronto court, Grace Marks was tried and convicted as an accessory to the murder of her employer, Thomas Kinnear. She was sentenced to death, a penalty later commuted to life imprisonment, following pressure from various public groups, who pointed in mitigation to her extreme youth …
Weyward
by Emilia Hart I haven't been reviewing for the past few months, which doesn't mean I haven't been reading, but it does mean I have built up something of a review backlog. Weyward is one of the slickest stories I have read this year, a well-paced and cleverly plotted novel about three women who are …
Lessons In Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus 'There's nothing more irritating than witnessing someone else's unfair share of happiness, and to some of their colleagues at Hastings Research Institute, Elizabeth and Calvin had an unfair share. He, because he was brilliant; she, because she was beautiful.' Elizabeth Zott is a chemist -a good chemist. Her problem is, she is …
The Brother
by NV Peacock 'That's when all hope in me died. There was no chance they were going to let anyone live.' Fallon has a doctorate in psychology. She conducts on line therapy sessions. She is also the victim of a murderous assault in which people have died. And the leader of her attackers, Tyler Baker, …
Dawnlands
by Philippa Gregory '[Rowan] nodded and disappeared before his eyes. It was as if she had melted into air. One moment he held her warm hand and saw her confident smile under the shadow of her hat, and the next there were just shadows, not even the outline of her shadow, not even the whisper …
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