The Facts of Life by Graham Joyce
ISBN: 0753818426 I’ve read a few books now by Joyce, and this has to be my favourite so far. Set during, and just after the London Blitz of WWI, this book...
4 July 2005
The Surgeon’s Mate by Patrick O'Brien
I’ve read a few of these books since seeing Master and Commander: The far side of the world film which was roughly based on two of O’Briens books. As with the...
7 June 2005
Tatty by Christine Dwyer Hickey
I really liked this book. The writing was simple and straight-forward but wonderful. Dwyer Hickey makes Tatty, the character, come alive, and gives her a voice of her own. A voice...
27 May 2005
Time traveler’s wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Author: Audrey Niffengger
I’ve listed this under chick-lit as it is basically a romance story, with a little bit of sci-fi (in the form of time travel) thrown in. The plot revolves around Clare and Henry, who meet when Clare was 6 and Henry 36. But marry when Clare was 22 and Henry 30.
27 May 2005
Gifted by John Cassidy, Joss Whedon
ISBN:0785115315 I’ve always been a theoretical fan of the X-Men comics. What I mean is that I’ve always thought they were cool, but I’ve never bought one. I did love the...
20 May 2005
The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer
Written for in order to entertain a sick brother this is the first of Heyer’s books and was published when she was 19. She went on to write more than 50...
19 May 2005
Until the Final Hour by Traudl Junge
At 22 she dreamed of being a ballerina, yet she ended up working for and “liking the greatest criminal ever to have lived.” In this book she simply retells her experiences,...
18 May 2005
Songdogs by Colum McCann
Sondogs is the tale of seven days in the life of Conor, he has come home to see his father while getting a visa for his return to the states. He...
26 April 2005
The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon by Colin Jones
ISBN: 0140130934 I’m not quite sure why I picked this one up, I’ve never had all that great an interest in French history, not after getting totally confuddled trying to study...
20 April 2005
The Masked Ball and other stories by Alexandre Dumas
Trans: A.Craig Bell ISBN: 075091467X Sticking with the French theme I picked up The Masked Ball and other stories by Alexandre Dumas when I was wandering around various book shops over...
11 April 2005
Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
#1 in the Otherworld series Reread 1st April 2005: Grabbed it and Stolen from the shelves when I was home. Basically it is the story of the world’s only female werewolf....
1 April 2005
These Old Shades & Sylvester by Georgette Heyer
Over the Easter I wasn’t online, but I was still reading. And two books that Ninemoons gave me were Sylvester and These Old Shades. Both written by Gorgette Heyer and are...
30 March 2005