Cover Title , Author, Year Summary Rating First read
Last read
Tags

Ragnarok: the End of the Gods 

Author : A S Byatt 

Published: 2011

Synopsis extract: A view of nordic gods

Synopsis 5 words


13 Sep '12  

13 Sep '12

fiction

Where the Wasteland Ends 

Author : Theodore Roszak 

Published: 1972

No summary or synopsis available


28 Aug '12  

28 Aug '12

non-fiction

The Book of Lies 

Author : Mary Horlock 

Published: 2011

No summary or synopsis available


10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

fiction

This Is Paradise 

Author : Will Eaves 

Published: 2012

Synopsis extract: story of a family told elliptically around the aging and dying of the mother

Synopsis 14 words


22 Jul '12  

22 Jul '12

fiction

Angelmaker 

Author : Nick Harkaway 

Published: 2012

No summary or synopsis available


09 Jun '12

9 Jun '12

fiction

Trusted Mole 

Author : Milos Stankovic 

Published: 2000

Synopsis extract: Milos's experiences in Bosnia 1992-1995 as a soldier with the UN working as an interpreter and unofficial Liasion Officer

Synopsis 19 words


19 May '12  

19 May '12

non-fiction

The Prague Cemetary 

Author : Umberto Eco 

Published: 2011

Synopsis extract: From Garibaldi's invasion of Scilly and the creation through Piedmont to Paris and the 19th centruy's obsession with masons and jews and conspiracys and secrets to the protocols of the elders of zion and their echoes into the twentieth century one ...

Synopsis 46 words


03 May '12  

3 May '12

fiction

The Etymologicon 

Author : Mark Forsyth 

Published: 2011

Synopsis extract: A romp through etymology of some English Words

Synopsis 8 words


22 Apr '12  

22 Apr '12

non-fiction

The Maintenance of Headway 

Author : Magnus Mills 

Published: 2009

Synopsis extract: A (london) bus driver's tales

Synopsis 5 words


21 Apr '12  

21 Apr '12

non-fiction

To Live Outside The Law 

Author : Leaf Fielding 

Synopsis extract: From first acid trip through to jail as a result of the Operation Julie drugs bust and out the other side

Synopsis 21 words


16 Mar '12  

16 Mar '12

non-fiction

Sherston's Progress 

Author : Siegfried Sassoon 

Published: 1937

Synopsis extract: From anti-war protestor through psychiatric hospital to a return to war in Palestine and back to the Western Front in 1918. ...

Synopsis 25 words


05 Mar '12

5 Mar '12

non-fiction

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer 

Author : Siegfried Sassoon 

Published: 1937

Synopsis extract: Life in the trenches 1916-1917

Synopsis 5 words


20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

non-fiction

The Anatomy of Ghosts 

Author : Andrew Taylor 

Published: 2010

Synopsis extract: Dark deeds in an eighteenth century Cambridge College

Synopsis 8 words


28 Jan '12  

28 Jan '12

fiction

How To Teach Quantum Physics To Your Dog 

Author : Chad Orzel 

Published: 2010

Synopsis extract: An entertaining explanation of the current state of quantum physics

Synopsis 10 words


20 Jan '12  

20 Jan '12

non-fiction

The Memory of Love 

Author : Aminatta Forna 

Published: 2010

Synopsis extract: Intertwining stories post civil war Freetown, Sierra Leone

Synopsis 8 words


10 Jan '12  

10 Jan '12

fiction

The Rise of the Green Left 

Author : Derek Wall 

Published: 2010

Synopsis extract: Account of history and global dimension of ecosocialism traced back to Marx, William Morris etc.

Synopsis 15 words


08 Jan '12  

8 Jan '12

non-fiction

Travellers on a Trade Wind 

Author : Marcia Pirie 

Published: 1992

Synopsis extract: Marcia & David sailing around the Pacific - an account of a couple of years out of an 8 or 9 year circumnavigation.

Synopsis 20 words


08 Jan '12  

8 Jan '12

non-fiction

Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man 

Author : Siegfried Sassoon 

Published: 1937

Synopsis extract: Growing up in Edwardian Sussex/Kent with horses and hunting and eventually off to war.

Synopsis 15 words


01 Jan '12  

1 Jan '12

non-fiction

The Lion of Hollywood 

Author : Scot Eyman 

Published: 2005

Synopsis extract: Biography of Louis B Mayer

Synopsis 5 words


01 Jan '12

1 Jan '12

non-fiction

The Hare With Amber Eyes 

Author : Edmund de Waal 

Published: 2010

Synopsis extract: A sort of biography of a family from Odessa in 19c as jewish grain merchants through Vienna and Paris in 1880s to 1939 as extremely wealthy bankers and beyond to the family diaspora told through the story of a collection of Japanese netsuke.

Synopsis 42 words


16 Nov '11  

16 Nov '11

non-fiction

The Tiger's Wife 

Author : Tea Obreht 

Published: 2011

Synopsis extract: Magically interweaving tales from (former) Yugoslavia through various conflicts

Synopsis 9 words


30 Oct '11  

30 Oct '11

fiction

The City and The City 

Author : China Mieville 

Published: 2009

Synopsis extract: Two cities overlaying each other separated by mental barriers. ...

Synopsis 41 words


11 Oct '11  

11 Oct '11

fiction

The White Tiger 

Author : Aravind Adiga 

Published: 2008

No summary or synopsis available


02 Oct '11  

2 Oct '11

fiction

The Kings English 

Author : Kingsley Amis 

Published: 1995

Synopsis extract: KA's opinions about English and writing

Synopsis 6 words


25 Sep '11  

25 Sep '11

non-fiction

One Dead Hen 

Author : Charlie Williams 

Published: 2011

Synopsis extract: Royston Blake, ex club doorman, has a particular interpretation of life quite orthogonal to reality as the police and he investigate a series of grisly murders

Synopsis 26 words


15 Sep '11  

15 Sep '11

fiction