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 …
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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 …
Goodreads and Me (4)
Books I Didn't Review: A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin When I began reading A Game of Thrones a couple of years or so back, I had already watched the first TV series on DVD. I loved it! It's a great story, a kind of blend of historical fiction and fantasy that really …
F is for ……. friendship
Screw Friendship by RG Manse I picked up this book on a recommendation from WordPress. The main protagonist of this story, set in present-day Edinburgh, is Rosy, an eighteen-year-old student at Heriot Watt University. Rosy has never known her biological father, Frank Friendship, but has grown up with her mum Irene and step-dad Findlay. She's …
Goodreads and Me
I just don't know what to do with my bookshelf? (with apologies to the late Dusty Springfield) A few days ago I mentioned [https://bookheathen.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/novel-priorities/]that Amazon had transferred some of my 'data' from an old platform to Goodreads. I've been having a look at what they've done: It's a bit of a jungle. Every entry has …
The Tale of Sakuntala
Sakuntala by Kalidasa (c. 400 CE, trans. Michael Coulson 1981) * Sakuntala by Abanindranath Tagore (1895, trans.William Radice 1992) * The story of Sakuntala and King Dushyanta (variously Dushmanta or Duhshanta) is an ancient tale, its origins going back thousands of years to the myths of India. The first known written version appears in a …
Classic Reviews – Free Book
For the last few days, I've been busy collecting together some of my earliest reviews into a little book, which I have now published on Amazon Kindle. The book is now available at: http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Reviews-Andrew-G-Lockhart-ebook/dp/B01E2TNBC8 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Classic-Reviews-Andrew-G-Lockhart-ebook/dp/B01E2TNBC8 and other Amazon sites, and if you would like a copy, you'll be able to download it FREE from …
'Do you want to come in?'
I sometimes wonder why Hollywood has to go one better than Europe when it comes to adapting novels for the screen. Last week, my curiosity got the better of me and I decided to buy the Bluray disc of the Hammer film Let Me In. For the benefit of anyone who doesn't know it, Let …
A Fisherman's Tale
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway '....nothing showed on the surface of the water but some patches of yellow, sun-bleached Sargasso weed and the purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war floating close beside the boat.' His name is Santiago, and we are left to guess his age. What is …
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