Never by Ken Follett A Review What is the probability of nuclear war in the next five years - ten years - your lifetime? And what will be the consequences - hundreds of millions dead, cripples or poisoned - half of the habitable earth a wasteland? These are questions posed by Follett’s brilliant, apocalyptic and …
Category: Book Review
The Judge’s List
by John Grisham A Review 'After twelve years of investigating judges, Lacy considered herself immune from shock. She was also calloused and jaded enough to have serious doubts about Jeri's story.' For my second book to read over the Christmas period, I chose this thriller by John Grisham. Judges - as far as I know …
A World Without Books?
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury A Review ' "There is nothing magical in [books] at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us." ' Guy Montag is a fireman. But he doesn't put out fires; he starts them! That is …
1989
by Val McDermid A Review 'He unscrewed the jar and took out a capsule. They were dark green, he'd read, so they woudn't deteriorate in sunlight. From his pocket he took out a small vial of white powder ...... Then he replaced the vitamins with the white powder and reassembled the capsule ...... He didn't …
Sisters at the Edge of the World
by Ailish Sinclair A Review 'Atunement. Living flesh, pulsing with the beat of life, touching stone that is also living and beating in another way. There is life within. And there is wisdom. And there is a throb of energy, gathered over time. And love. Yes, love.' The Roman historian Tacitus wrote of a great …
Dark Tides
by Philippa Gregory A Review 'He heard the clink of chains from the bones hanging at the gibbet .... and thought how hateful this place was. He hated Alys with a hot murderous fury, and for a moment, he even hated Alinor too. She had been his inferior in every way, his for the taking, …
Helgoland
by Carlo Rovelli translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell 'In my own attempts to make sense of quanta for myself, I have wandered among the texts of philosophers in search of a conceptual basis with which to understand the strange picture of the world provided by this incredible theory. In doing so, I have …
Book Review
Dracula by Bram Stoker 'There lay Lucy, seemingly just as we had seen her the night before her funeral. She was, if possible, more radiantly beautiful than ever, and I could not believe she was dead. The lips were red, nay redder than before, and on her cheeks was a delicate bloom.' What is there …
A Life on Our Planet
by David Attenborough A Review There can be few people around the world who have not heard of David Attenborough. He has been involved in nature broadcasting for around seventy of his ninety-four* years. During this time, he has probably seen more of the planet than anyone else alive today. This book, A Life on …
The Stolen Sisters
by Louise Jensen ‘That was when she saw a glint of silver. A sharp point pressed against her neck. Instantly the bottom fell out of her world, her body slackened. She had to stay alive for her sisters.’The Stolen Sisters (2020) is the sixth of Louise Jensen’s psychological thrillers. It follows the same structure that …
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