by Margaret Atwood '.... [A]nyone who liked smelling daisies, and having daisies to smell, and eating mercury-free fish, and who objected to giving birth to three-eyed infants via the toxic sludge in their drinking water was a demon-possessed Satanic minion of darkness, hell-bent on sabotaging the American Way and God's Holy Oil, which were one …
Category: Book Review
The Mysteries of Udolpho
by Ann Radcliffe 'As the carriage wheels rolled heavily under the portcullis, Emily's heart sunk, and she seemed, as if she was going into her prison .... her imagination, ever awake to circumstance, suggested even more terrors than her reason could justify.' I've been neglecting the books on my Classics Club list for a while …
'Et tu, Brute?'
Emperor by Conn Iggulden The supposed last words (or nearly last words) of Julius Caesar are best known from the play by William Shakespeare. Whether he said anything of the sort - or anything at all - when he was fatally stabbed, remains in doubt. But, of course, Shakespeare was writing drama, not history. Latin …
The Sister
by Louise Jensen 'I did something terrible, Grace. I hope you can forgive me.' What has Grace's best friend Charlie done that's so terrible? Grace doesn't know, but in the four months since Charlie's death the question has lain heavily on her mind. When the girls were fifteen, they buried a memory box with photos …
Who Do You Think You Are?
Blood of the Isles by Bryan Sykes A Bookheathen Review I became fascinated by genetics back in my student days. The science was still at an early stage then. We knew about DNA but were still a long way from using it to solve crimes, and an even longer way from sequencing the human genome. …
Runaway
by Peter May Of the three thrillers I read over the past couple of weeks, I managed to review only two, so the third is coming up today. However, before tackling that, I want to say thanks for a second Versatile Blogger Award, a nomination by Cindy from My Book File. For anyone who missed …
Gun Law
Shall We Tell The President? by Jeffrey Archer For my second romantic thriller of the week I've chosen this 1986 novel by the British author equally famous for doing other things. Archer actually wrote and published Shall We Tell The President? in 1977 but then revised it when he realised some of the events he …
Secret Sisters
Secret Sisters by Jayne Ann Krentz This novel was one of those little gems of serendipity that one encounters occasionally on the TBR list. A freebie (actually a publisher advance copy), it sat on my shelf for weeks before I even opened it. The title suggested 'chick lit', which meant I was never going to …
The Perfect Storm
by Sebastian Junger 'People often get premonitions when they do jobs that could get them killed, and in commercial fishing ... people get premonitions all the time.' If you're the sort of person who dislikes a bit of water, this is not the book for you. Even if you're a seasoned cruise addict or a …
The Taming of the Queen
by Philippa Gregory ' "....He is a madman, Kateryn, he has been mad for years. ....And you will be his next victim.' " This is the stark warning delivered to Kateryn Parr by Thomas Seymour in Philippa Gregory's brilliant novel reconstruction of the marriage of Henry VIII and his sixth wife. Set in the 1540s, …
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