Count your blessings. I write this in late 2008 as the global financial system goes into meltdown and the credit crunch is really biting into our individual pockets. What Nella Last would m...
Real history in the making. Many books have been penned about Ancient Rome. Some are well written and know what the're talking about - whilst others are long-winded and can bore you to tears...
This price is an insult. To the true genius of this man. He understood it like no other to capture the spirit of his century, to describe the true face of womanhood and to portrait society a...
Powerful and frightening true diary.. You can't help but be moved by this diary - written by a professional woman in the last days of the Second World War and beyond as Germany sinks to defe...
Five stars, but........ First things first - this is a brilliant evocation of what it is actually like being in a war. Fraser captures the banality, the boredom, the absurdity and the shock ...
Isn't life funny?. I too had to read it more than once...
What's the point of the author indulging in a 'Chautauqua' on 'Romantic' & 'Classic' 'Values', with the resultant (extravagant) sol...
Beautiful!. As a poet Rilke is wonderful, but this collection of letters is the most awe inspiring thing he has written. I was introduced to this book by a friend and have re read it countle...
A Fascinating Character. This is another fascinating historical biography that reads more like a novel than a stuffy factual book. Virtually everyone knows the name of Samuel Pepys. Ah yes, ...
I'M SO GLAD I BOUGHT THIS.... This is an excellently edited collection of Ted Hughes' letters,and I'm very glad that I bought it.
The letters are not written by a man who knew that they woul...
A great mixture of Cookes career history and actual reports. Anyone who truly enjoys listening to Alistair Cookes talks would love this audio book. His background, and career is charted and...
