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Last Christmas my brother bought me a hardback copy of ‘Snuff’ by Terry Pratchett. Unfortunately, owing to an increasingly busy schedule I rarely get a chance to indulge in superfluous reading these days, which is why I am a long term subscriber to audible.co.uk. That way I get to listen to books while I work. [Read more...]
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Gone with the Wind is a novel that made a university student grow up. Time to choose the morals that your parents attempt to instil you with – which ones stay, which ones go. Margaret Mitchell makes you wait and then wait some more, and then leaves you waiting in the most satisfying way. No [Read more...]
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One of the audiobooks I came across on the run up to Christmas was ‘The Young Atheist’s Handbook’ by Alom Shaha.1 Working a four hour evening shift means that I’m always looking for books that I can pretty much have finished by the time I clock-off. More often than not I had to spread the [Read more...]
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‘The most powerful of all her novels, a near- faultless masterpiece of pathos, observation and feeling.’ Sunday Telegraph.’ This haunting novel by Hilary Mantel offers a beautiful unforgettable portrait of a young female driving herself to destruction. Carmel McBain, a fragile and delicate character traces her life growing up in Lancashire to attending collage in [Read more...]
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‘London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven Wintry days to track the lives of seven characters;’ This book written by Sebastian Faulks follows the interchanging lives of a selection of people during a week in December 2007. Throughout the narrative the book dips and bobs between the daily lives and troubles of the characters including [Read more...]
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‘Grace Lisa Vandenburg counts. The letters in her name (19). The steps she takes every morning to the local café (920); the number of poppy seeds on her slice of orange cake, which dictates the number of bites she’ll take to finish it. Grace counts everything, because numbers hold the world together. And she needs to keep [Read more...]
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Yes, I’ll admit it. I jumped on the bandwagon. For those who have been on Mars for the last month or so, the Fifty Shades trilogy has skyrocketed to the top of the Times best seller list for the last 14 weeks, with each of the three books taking that position in the chart. It is the story of Anastasia Steele- a university student that has just graduated and Christian Grey a control-freak, megalomaniac, super rich handsome modern day Mr Darcy type with a big secret.
