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Saturday 11th October 2014

2014

Only Planet

Author : Ed Gillespie

Summary :
Travelling around the world by surface transport with reflections on environmentalism

Reviewed by Roger, on 11 Oct 2014

Review of "Only Planet"

Very good, enjoyable to read and interesting. Wanted more detail in some places but a good summary of a slow-travel round the world. Makes me wonder what the book that Matt Wooton would have written would have been like.


Saturday 27th September 2014

2009

A Place of Strangers

Author : Geoffrey Seed

Summary :
Spy, history, family mystery. ...

Reviewed by Roger, on 27 Sep 2014

Review of "A Place of Strangers"

Bit of a boys book probably. Quite a good read with very surprising ending on the last page


Wednesday 24th September 2014

2008

The Misremembered Man

Author : Christina McKenna

Summary :
Oirish tale drawing on the experience of the awful catholic orphanages and the devastation they ...

Reviewed by Roger, on 24 Sep 2014

Review of "The Misremembered Man"

The ending was visible from half way through, if not earlier, but that didn't really spoil it. Jamie finds the love in his life just in time and is (spoiler alert) reunitied with his sister who the nuns declared had died.


Saturday 23rd August 2014

2013

Lion Heart

Author : Justin Cartwright

Summary :
Young man gets involved with woman in Jerusalem and researching the story of Richard 1st return ...

Reviewed by Roger, on 23 Aug 2014

Review of "Lion Heart"

Interweaving research detective work with thriller romance and historical imaginings in an effective way. Slightly criticism would be that Noor remains ill-defined and is rather used by the novelist as a convenient McGuffin and them disposed of once the happy ending is in sight.


Monday 18th August 2014

0000

The Mask of Anarchy

Author : P.B. Shelley

Rated by Roger, on 18 Aug 2014



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