In February I read " The Other Boleyn Girl" by Philippa Gregory and loved it so much it became my first 10 out of 10 book of the year; so it was with great anticipation that I picked up this book ( Read more... )

I am not normally the kind of reader who counts every children's story, short story and pamphlet I read in my annual count of "books read". I am more of a purist!  So normally, this book would not be the kind of book I review.  However it is so good, that I wanted to write a review on it and hopefully bring it to the attention of a few people ( Read more... )

This is another page turned from Picoult.  This time the story centres around the death of 17 year old Emily Gold.  Initially her next-door-neighbour, best friend and boyfriend, Chris Harte confesses to her murder; but as the story unfolds it seems that things aren't quite that clear-cut ( Read more... )

NO SPOILERS!So after ten years and 6 books, the final installment of the Harry Potter series hit the bookshelves at one minute past midnight on Saturday the 21st July.  Determined not to have my enjoyment of the book spoilt by any "spoilers" I spent the whole of Saturday reading the book to find out what eventually happens to Harry and his friends ( Read more... )

This is such an amazing and beautiful book, I barely know where to start with writing a review ( Read more... )

This is a really beautifully written book ( Read more... )

This is another great Kinsella read.

Samantha is a high-powered lawyer in London approaching her first partnership in the country's leading law firm.  On the morning the partnership is about to be announced, she discovers she has made a massive mistake which has cost one of the firm's leading clients £50 million.

Panicked and upset she stumbles out ( Read more... )

At last!  After what has heard like an interminable length of time, I have finally finished another fantastic book (which seem to have been few and far between so far this year).

"The Book Thief" follows the story of Liesel, a little German girl living in Germany in the midst of WW2.  She is fostered to the Himmermanns by her mother, who is a ( Read more... )

Continuing my recent run of fair-to-middling, run-of-the-mill, average reads is Ian McEwan's Enduring Love.  Joe Rose's life is turned upside down when, at an afternoon picnic, he intervenes in an unfolding tragedy with a runaway hot air balloon in which a young boy's life is saved but man is killed.  In the process of trying to save the boy Joe's ( Read more... )

I despised this book, and only finished reading it because I was on the train this afternoon and had nothing else to read ( Read more... )