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The Winter Rose
Jennifer Donnelly
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2006
If you loved the Tea Rose, you'll love this book!
I loved The Tea Rose, and this story was just as beautiful and engaging. While the prose may not be the highlight (a few too many sentence fragments--for emphasis-- in my opinion, and sometimes a bit sappy), the story is a gem. Donnelly has done her research; the ...
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Notes from an Exhibition
Patrick Gale
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2008
Sympathetic Storyteller
Britain's "most successful openly gay author" (this from OutUK.com) has written a book that has little to say about gayness, much to say about the impact of mental illness on a family, something to say about religion and its consolations, and much to say about sibling ...
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Sword Song
Bernard Cornwell
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
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The Kitchen Diaries
Nigel Slater
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
an absolute must for Foodies - more than a cookbook - it is pure enjoyment
Nigel Slater is definitely one of the best food writers around today, his enjoyment of food - its textures, colours, tastes and aromas is inspiring and even now just thinking about the book I find my mouth watering.
He is a British writer and if you have not heard ...
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The Boleyn Inheritance
Philippa Gregory
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
Wonderful
Great and human writing showing this time in history. I read it again and again.
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He's Just Not That Into You
Liz Tuccillo
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2006
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Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
Michael Morpurgo
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
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Sword of Truth 10. Phantom
Terry Goodkind
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
Goodkind's best novel yet
I would rank this book up there with Faith of the Fallen as the best book in the series so far. While not as explicitly philosophical as Faith of the Fallen (which, aside from Richard's first premature and out-of-place philosophy speech at the beginning, seamlessly ...
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Beneath the Bleeding
Val McDermid
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
The ultimate affair
When Dr.Tony Hill is attacked by an axe wielding madman at the mental hospital where he works, he is forced to recover from the ensuing operation in hospital, grumpy at being unable to walk and unable to help DCI Carol Jordan in several cases in which she is involved. ...
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Teacher Man
Frank McCourt
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2006
Almost as Good As "Angela's Ashes"
McCourties of the world rejoice! You have nothing to lose but your tears of woe anticipating when he'd return with his next book; the foremost memoirist of our time is back. Frank McCourt's "Teacher Man" is a spellbinding lyrical ode to the craft of teaching. It is a ...
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The Last Kindom
Bernard Cornwell
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2005
The Last Kingdom
I am a Richard Sharpe fan, I've read every one of everything ever published about Sharpe. Bernard Cornwell is a genius writer of historical novels and gives you the real history at the conclusion of his slightly fictionalized writing. I've read the Sharpe series ...
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Darkwar 1. Flight of the Nighthawks
Raymond E. Feist
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2006
Next Best Midkemia Trilogy
Anyone who has read the Midkemia books to this point will be thrilled to know that the story continues. This book is a great next step in the world that has captured it's fans imaginations from the onset.
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The Space Between Us
Thrity Umrigar
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
The Space Between Is
This was one of the best books I have read. My interest in India was deepened with this moving, insightful and detailed work of art about the relationship between families and the people who care for them over a life time. The secrets and lies that are carried within a ...
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Foul!
Andrew Jennings
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2007
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Cold Granite
Stuart MacBride
Harper Collins Publ. UK, 2006
A new candidate for the Tartan Noire movement
This is an exceptionally mature and complex book considering it is MacBride's first novel. His comfort with the material and sureness of plotting remind me of Jim Kelly, whose first novel The Water Clock was another spectacular debut that has borne out over several ...
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