The land of mist by Arthur Conan Doyle
Professor Challenger ; 3 So, in the second Challenger book no reference whatsoever was made to dinosaurs or lost worlds so why I should have expected any reference in this to...
22 February 2019
T. H. White : a biography by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Back in 2017 I read and loved H is for hawk by Helen Macdonald. In that book she talks about T. H. White and his book on training a goshawk. I...
18 February 2019
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
If you want to read a book that’ll really show how horrific people can be to one another then this is it. It tells the story of the murders of Mollie...
7 August 2018
The Lost City of Z [based on the book] by David Grann dir. by James Gray
[imdb_movie_detail title=”The Lost City of Z” detail=”plot”] Sometimes when you describe a film or a book as “interesting” you really mean that you didn’t like it but don’t really want to...
27 March 2017
The Wolf in the Attic by Paul Kearney
Anna Francis lives in a tall old house with her father and her doll Penelope. She is a refugee, a piece of flotsam washed up in England by the tides of...
13 July 2016
Clouds of witness by Dorothy L Sayers
After solving the mystery of Whose Body Lord Peter Wimsey holidays in the wilds of Corsica, but, tiring of the rustic and wanting a bit of luxury he heads to Paris where he gets the shocking news that his brother, the Duke of Denver, has been arrested for murder. And the victim was Denis Cathcart, his sister’s fiancée. Wimsey heads for home straight away, and together with Inspector Parker he begins to investigate what actually happened.
21 December 2014
Wild Orchids dir. by Sidney Franklin
Lillie Sterling and her husband John are travelling to Java. A second honeymoon says Lillie, while for John it is all about the business. Even aboard ship he is constantly interrupted...
25 April 2014
The Abominable by Dan Simmons
My final read for this year’s RIP In June of 1924 reports from Everest reveal that George Mallory and Andrew Irvine have vanished, missing, presumed dead in their attempt to reach...
3 November 2013
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Before Ernest Hemmingway was the famous author of hie time he was a struggling writer, trying to figure out how to make ends meet, trying to find his voice. In the...
20 October 2013
Beasts of the walking city by Del Law
Book one in the Walking Cities series Blackwell is a Hugliev, a once powerful race that have been hunted to the brink of extinction across all known worlds. Often they are...
2 September 2013
To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Ramsay wants to go to the lighthouse. His mother says that yes, of course they can go tomorrow, weather permitting. His father disagrees. The weather will not permit it, he asserts, they will not go to the lighthouse.
Much of this novel revolves around the one afternoon and evening before this proposed trip to the lighthouse. The Ramsay family, maternal and magnificent mother, needy professor father and all eight children are staying in their holiday home in the Isle of Skye. With them are a number of other guests, Lily Briscoe the painter. William Banks, Augustus Carmichael, and Charles Tansey.
16 July 2013
The light between oceans by M. L. Stedman
Tom Sherbourne has come back to Australia from World War I. Like many soldiers he has brought many demons back with him. He cannot understand why he survived when so many...
24 July 2012
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