Showed promise but, in the end, didn't deliver. Had I been rating this book about a third of the way through, I would probably have given it 3-4 stars. I think the author has a nice style of...
The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the ...
Harlequin...sorry, Azincourt. Is Bernard Cornwell's latest novel, but readers could be forgiven for thinking that they have seen it all before. Poor English peasant hero with uncanny knack ...
Heartwarming. I have not read any of Tremain's work before and found this book very moving. Living in London I could picture many of the places talked about, but even without this, Tremain c...
Has any comic been as lauded as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns but Watchmen remains the critics' favourite. Why? Because Moore is...
Love it.. If having to go to work and not needing sleep, hadn't got in the way, I would have read this all in one go (as it was I'd read it in 24hrs). What was so good about it? The story,...
Have to agree - thumbs down. Im a big Kinsella fan and cant wait for the shopaholic movie.
I bought this title on audio book and although i loved the plot i was totally gob smacked when the ...
As good as it gets. A wonderful book by my favourite novelist. It has everything you could ask for. The only downside is the feeling of sadness that hits you when you reach the last page.
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Another good book in this series. This is another good book in this series, and has some very good writing of disturbing religious views of the time. As with other books, CJ Sansom brings Tu...
Given the astonishing length of the writing career of PD James (her first novel was published in 1962), it is perhaps not surprising that her work often consciously refers back to an earlier...