Son of heaven by David Wingrove
9781848875258 #1 in the Chung Kuoseries A thin layer of mist wreathed the meadows all the way to reeds that traced the meandering path of the river. It is the year...
10 April 2011
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 9780552549059 ; Annotations on L-Space Some things start before other things. Tiffany Aching lives up on The Chalk of Discworld, in a rural shepherding community. She was the youngest of...
12 February 2011
The woman in black by Susan Hill
ISBN: 9780099511649 It was nine-thirty on Christmas eve. Arthur Kipps is a mature and responsible individual. His first wife & child died many years ago, but he has since found happiness...
4 February 2011
Singled out by Virginia Nicholson
Full title: Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War ISBN: 9780670915644 The term “lost generation” is often used to refer to the generation...
20 December 2010
The Grudge by Tom English
Full title The Grudge : Scotland vs. England, 1990 ISBN: 9780224082761 Did you know that 1990 was twenty years ago. Twenty! That’s a long time. I always sort of feel that...
14 December 2010
Lady of Quality by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 033236490 Miss Annis Wychwood is in her late twenties, and as she is still unmarried, she believes her future to hold nothing but remaining single. However she is not about...
26 November 2010
Tooth and claw by Jo Walton
Bon Agornin has led a successful life in many ways. He has improved his status, and his elder children are well on their way in life. But his three youngest need additional help. The two younger daughters need dowries if they are to marry well, and his youngest son needs in the city. And so Bon Agornin has decided that his wealth is to go to them, with the rest of his family merely taking a token, for remembrance and tradition. And by his wealth he means his treasure and his body, for in dragon society it is practice to eat the dead. But his son-in-law does not agree, believing that Bon Agornin meant only his gold. He and his family take much much more of the dead dragon’s body than one token bite.
17 October 2010
The small hand by Susan Hill
by Susan Hill
Coming home one evening from meeting with a client, rare books dealer Adam Snow takes a wrong turn and ends up outside a derelict Edwardian house. For some strange reason he is drawn to this building and its wilderness of gardens and finds himself wandering through the overgrown weeds. And, standing all alone, he feels the strangest of sensations. A small hand, in his. As though he were a father taking hold of a son’s hand. But he is not a father. And there is no child.
14 October 2010
The man who lives with wolves by Penny Junor, Shaun Ellis
ISBN: 9780007327157 I first heard of Shaun Ellis when I watched the Natural Geographic documentary on him and his theories about how playing recordings of wolf packs can stop wolf attacks...
30 August 2010
Unseen academicals by Terry Pratchett
9780385609340 In the back streets of Ankh-Morpork football is king. And those “Faces” in the shove, or crowd, are just as important as the players. After all, no one really ever...
16 July 2010
Knife edge by Malorie Blackman
ISBN: 9780385605274 This continues pretty much where Noughts & Crosses finished up. If you haven’t read that one you really have no business reading this book. It won’t make a lot...
30 June 2010
Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
ISBN: 0552546321 Callum and Sephy have grown up together, best friends, and now in their teens maybe their friendship is developing into something more. But there is a problem, Callum is...
28 June 2010
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