The Bull Raid by Calo Gebbler
ISBN: 1405212551 This is a YA book based on the Irish legend of The Táin. Cúchulainn is the legendary Ulster warrior who is forced to defend...
18 September 2005
Devil’s Cub by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 0099465833 This is the sequel to These Old Shades, and deals with the Duke of Avon’s son; the Marquis of Vidal. He is as much...
6 September 2005
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
ISBN: 0349116156 Set in the 1950′;s this is the story of Stella as she becomes part of a theatre group She lives with her aunt and...
5 September 2005
Last Days dir. by Gus Van Sant
Opening with a scene of Blake stumbling and mumbling his way through the woods this film almost always looks great and interesting. Unfortunately it isn’t. It...
4 September 2005
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
You know all those US-ians[1] who go on about how the US is the greatest country in the world? How it is the best in everything?...
2 September 2005
Haunted by Kelley Armstrong
Eva Levine is a half-demon half-witch who also happens to be dead. She’s not in heaven, not in hell, just in the afterlife. Or at least the one that supernatural beings go to after they die. She is also a little preoccupied with keeping an eye on her daughter, Savannah, although being dead she has no way at all of protecting her, talking to her, or ever getting in contact.
30 August 2005
The Reverse of the Medal by Patrick O'Brien
Book 11 ISBN: 0006499260 Someone mentions Jack Aubrey and at once you think of sea battles and naval history, you may not think of Stock Exchange...
27 August 2005
While Green Grass Grows by Bríd Mahon
ISBN: 1856352064 As the subtitle says this book is mainly concerned with the life of Bríd Mahon while she worked for the Irish Folklore Commission. In...
22 August 2005
The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay
ISBN: 0743484231 Yet again Kay succeeds in creating a wonderful, fantastical version of history. This time he takes an alternate Britain being raided by the Vikings....
21 August 2005
The Wandering Fire by Guy Gavriel Kay
ISBN: 0586215239 It is always hard to review the middle book of a trilogy. I don’t want to give anything away to those who have yet...
18 August 2005
The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
ISBN: 0586215220 Book 1 of 3 The Fionavar Tapestry This is a reread for me, the reason being that we are reading the series at ffseries...
14 August 2005
The Conqueror by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 0099416441 You know the way sometimes you see a trailer for a film and think that looks like an entertaining comedy only for it to...
13 August 2005