book review

  • A Conspiracy of Angels by Laurence MacNaughton

    Mitch Turner is newly released from prison and goes to live with his asthmatic brother. Top of his to do list is to find out the truth about his daughter’s death. When a young girl called Geneva visits him one day asking what the Archangel project is about and what his role in it –…

  • The Rabbi In The Attic by Eileen Pollack

    The Rabbi In The Attic is a collection of short stories written by Eileen Pollack who covers a wide range of topics . In The Rabbi In The Attic, Eileen Pollack has brought together a

  • Dead Scared by S.J. Bolton

      Dead Scared is the fifth book by S.J. Bolton and the second with DC Lacey Flint as the main protagonist. In Dead Scared, Lacey is sent undercover to Cambridge University where there have been a number of student suicides. DC Flint assumes the identity of an emotionally vulnerable young woman – the profile of…

  • The Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson

    Sisters Evangeline and Elizabeth have travelled to 1920s China with older and more experienced woman Millicent in order to undertake missionary work. Each sister has taken something with them that doesn’t seem to belong in their new life.

  • Catch Up

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] Hey, it’s been a while! How are you? Have you been on holiday? You’re looking good. I feel like you are an old friend I haven’t seen in months and that there is loads to catch up on. I haven’t posted much recently – all sorts of boring reasons for that –…

  • The Cleansing Flames by R.N. Morris

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I don’t know much about Russian history. I know that there was a revolution at the beginning of the twentieth century where the Tzar and ruling classes were overthrown; I’d heard about the whole Anastasia thing and I knew that Russians were always the baddies in the best James Bond films. I…

  • Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] Where do I begin with this review? To say I loved the book doesn’t do justice to the amazing job David Mitchell has done within its pages. I enjoyed this so much it has knocked my previous favourite, John Irving’s A Prayer For Owen Meaney, into a cocked hat. Mitchell starts –…

  • One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] I left writing a review of this book for a week or so to decide what I really thought about it. I enjoyed it well enough when I was reading it,

  • Review of If I Never See You Again

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] We’ve all heard the old adage that we ‘shouldn’t judge a book by its cover’ and in the case of If I Never See You Again by Irish writer Niamh O’Connor, this couldn’t be more true. The cover doesn’t do justice to the intelligence and