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A Suitable Boy
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Bought from Amazon - BookiesToo big summer read
Rating - 10/10
Synopsis
Vikram Seth's novel is at its core a love story, the tale of Lata - and her mother's attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in post-Independence India and involving the lives of four large ( Read more... ) -
One Last Breath
One Last Breath by Stephen Booth
BookCrossing - bought with BookiesToo Amazon g.c.
Rating - 8/10
Synopsis from Amazon.co.uk
An escaped convict threatens more than the summer tourist trade in the gripping fifth thriller featuring Detectives Fry and Cooper. 'Today was the day Detective Constable Ben Cooper was supposed to have died. For practical ( Read more... ) -
Harry Potter
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling
pre-ordered from Amazon arived 21/07/07
Rating - 10/10
The Final Chapter
Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must ( Read more... ) -
Nineteen Minutes
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
BookCrossing - bookring - mrsbridgewater
Rating - 8/10
'Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens - until a student enters the local high school with and arsenal of guns and starts shooting, changing the lives of everyone, inside and out.
The daughter of the judge sitting on the case ( Read more... ) -
Moondust
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith
BookCrossing - bookring -
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No Good Deed
No Good Deed by Manda Scott
BookCrossing - NSSVS from shelbycat
Rating - 8/10
Amazon.co.uk Review
No Good Deed begins with what most thrillers would have as their climax--undercover cop Orla McLeod talks a young boy into cutting her free to fight back as drugs race catastrophically through her system and a colleague is tortured to death in another room ( Read more... ) -
My Antonia
My Antonia by Willa Cather
BookCrossng - trade - Griete
Rating - 10/10
Book Description
'As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains...And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.'
My Antonia (1918 ( Read more... )