Reviews of Books
Posted in Fiction - Light, Recommended on Aug 27th, 2009
I loved this book. It was definitely of its time and is probably a bit dated now. Here is what Amazon.co.uk has to say about it … Monica Dickens’s first book, published in 1940, could easily have been called Mariana – an Englishwoman. For that is what it is: the story of a young English [...]
Posted in Fiction - Light, Recommended on Aug 18th, 2009
I haven’t read any of Hodgson Burnett’s work before – not even The Secret Garden. I was quite keen to read this one, but found it quite difficult to find. In the end I bought it from Persephone - it’s a beautiful edition (not the one shown above, but one of their standard grey covers) with [...]
Posted in Recommended, Serious on Aug 15th, 2009
I’ve only read one Tim Winton novel The Ridersand I hated it. However, my mum passed this one onto me and my book club were keen to read it, so I took a deep breath (no pun intended – or maybe just a little) and read it. Here’s the blurb … When paramedic Bruce Pike [...]
Posted in Recommended, Serious on Aug 6th, 2009
A S Byatt is one of my favourite authors. I loved Possession and the quartet starting with The Virgin in the Garden. They’re so rich and finely detailed. Full of interesting people whose fate I care about. I read The Children’s Booktwice because it was dense. Packed full of information about all sorts of interesting [...]