April Lady by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 043432826X – Georgette Heyer There was a silence in the book-room, not the silence of intimacy but a silence fraught with tension Nell is in a little spot of bother....
14 July 2006
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
ISBN: 0755305078 It begins, as most things begin, with a song Fat Charlie is fat, but the nickname has stuck. It is his father’s fault, if Fat Charlie’s dad calls something...
30 June 2006
Unspeak by Steven Poole
ISBN: 0316731005 A long time ago in China, a philosopher was asked the first thing he would do if he became ruler. The philosopher thought for a while, and then said:...
22 June 2006
Screw It, Let’s Do It: Lessons in Life by Richard Branson
ISBN: 0753510995 The staff as Virgin have a name for me. It is ‘Dr. Yes.’ Large print and small page count, this really is a Quick Read. But it is also...
8 June 2006
The Middle Window by Elizabeth Goudge
This isn’t the sort of book I normally would have picked up, if I hadn’t recently read The Little White Horse I wouldn’t have been tempted by this. But there it...
7 June 2006
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
The carriage gave another lurch, and Maria Merryweather, Miss Heliotrope, and Wiggins once more fell into each other’s arms, sighed, gasped, righted themselves, and fixed their attention upon those objects which were for each of them at this trying moment the source of courage and strength.
I picked this book up on a total whim, I have the vaguest recollections of a tv series by the same name, which may or may not have existed. But if it did I think I found it boring. Still I’m a horse fan. It was cheap, and short. I gave in.
10 May 2006
Powder and Patch by Georgette Heyer
Prviously published as The Transformation of Philip Jettan: A Comedy of Manners ISBN: 434328014 c.1923 If you searched among the Downs in Sussex, somewhere between Midhurst and Brighthelmstone, inland a little,...
20 April 2006
The Medici Guns by Martin Woodhouse, Robert Ross
ISBN: none All day long, under a yellow and smoking Tuscan sky, the two huge guns vomited fire. The Medici Guns is set in the 1400’s in Italy, mostly centred on...
6 April 2006
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Northern Lights / The Golden Compass The Subtle Knife The Amber Spyglass First line [The Golden Compass]: Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to...
12 March 2006
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Travelling: the dank oily days after Christmas. The motorway, its wastes looping London: the margin’s scrub-grass flaring orange in the lights, and the leaves of the poisoned shrubs striped yellow-green like a cantaloupe melon.
3 March 2006
The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
ISBN: 0140316884 5 Vol.s in one Over Sea, Under Stone The Dark Is Rising Greenwitch The Grey King Silver On The Tree “Where is he?” Barney hopped from one foot to...
18 February 2006
Lovely Biscuits by Grant Morrison
ISBN: 1902197011 6 short stories plus an introduction by Stewart Home. Blind in the city of light, Patricia walked carefully back through the Cimitiere Pere-Lachasie Contents: The Braile Encyclopaedia The Room...
6 February 2006
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