Discover books from the last month, the last year, the last century – or the one before that! If I’ve read it and loved it, you’ll find a review here.
“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” – Carl Sagan
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” – Descartes
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” – Oscar Wilde
Exploring Friendship and Betrayal in ‘Dear Thief’ by Samantha Harvey #BookReview #TuesdayBookBlog
In the middle of a winter’s night, a woman wraps herself in a blanket, picks up a pen and starts writing to an estranged friend. In answer to a question you asked a long time ago, she writes, and so begins a letter that calls up a shared past both women have preferred to forget. Without…
‘Nights at the Circus’ A Magical Journey with Angela Carter #BookReview
Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe’s capitals, part swan…or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney’s circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled…
From the Classics to the Contemporary 