The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
ISBN: 0712600442 I read this book along with the Historical Fav. yahoo group. If it hadn’t been a group read I don’t think I would have picked it up, and I...
4 August 2005
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
ISBN: 0747581088SPOILERS for book 5, NOT for this book. Book six in the series and I really should have reread number 5 before this one but I didn’t. Ah well, I’d...
24 July 2005
1610: A Sundial In A Grave by Mary Gentle
ISBN: 0575072504 According to the mathematic calculations of the Hermetic astrologer Robert Fludd, 1610 is the pivotal year in deciding the world’s future. It is the year that the King of...
21 July 2005
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 0099426145 The thing about these Heyer books is that you always know how it is going to end up, but it doesn’t matter. When Sir Horace heads off to South...
21 July 2005
Vanity Fair [based on book] by William Makepiece Thackery dir. by Mira Nair
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. This is not a good film. To be honest it isn’t even worth discussing, apart from two aspects. There is wonderful look of the costumes,...
19 July 2005
Veronica Guerin dir. by Joel Schumacher
Went to see Veronica Guerin last week. It a film based on the true story of Veronica Guerin, a journalist with the Irish Independent who was murdered in 1996 because of...
18 July 2005
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
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
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
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