The Book of Dust (3) by Philip Pullman Volumes 2 and 3 The Secret Commonwealth The Rose Field 'And then without warning, in total silence, an immense shadow swept across the forum and submerged the man in darkness. As Lyra clung to the wall, unbelieving, the creature that threw the shadow swooped down on him …
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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 …
Launching in 14 Days …..
'There are many kinds of love, many kinds of lies. Then there are those three words, often spoken, which can deepen relationships - or destroy them by becoming the sweetest lie of all.' The Sweetest Lie I am pleased to announce that my new novel, The Sweetest Lie, will be released on May 29th as …
The Map of Bones
by Kate Mosse 'In her last seconds of consciousness, [she] grieved to think this was how the story would end. In a forgotten corner of a graveyard on the other side of the world. This is the day of my death.' Readers who have followed Kate Mosse's story of the Joubert Family and the Huguenot-Catholic …
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 …
The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons
by Karin Smirnoff 'His route takes him along an animal path. Birch, alder andwillow have already lost their leaves. He grabs a handful of lingonberries and pulls a bittersweet face. Bittersweet also describes the smell of the lumps of meat left in the lidded plastic drum.' It is nearly twenty-five years since Lisbeth Salander burst …
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, …
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker 'Dear God, I am fourteen years old. I am I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.' So begins Alice Walker's brilliant, prize-winning epistolary novel, The Color Purple. It introduces Celie, a poor, black, badly-educated and ugly (in …
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