Book List 2014

1) The Lost King of France: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII (Deborah Cadbury) p.284.
2) The Player of Games (Iain M. Banks) p.309.
3) Gun Machine (Warren Ellis) p.308.
4) The Once & Future King (T. H. White) p.812.
5) The Charioteer (Mary Renault) p.420.
6) A Game of Thrones (George R.R. Martin) p.801.
7) The Birth of ( Read more... )

Book List 2013

1) Seeing (Jose Saramago) p.307.
2) One of Our Thursdays is Missing (Jasper Fforde) p.385.
3) Almost French: A New Life in Paris (Sarah Turnbull) p.322.
4) Shape-shifter (Pauline Melville) p.240.
5) Remainder (Tom McCarthy) p.284.
6) The Parthenon (Mary Beard) p.240.
7) 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off (John Lloyd and John Mitchinson) ( Read more... )

Book List 2012

1) Cleopatra: A Life (Stacy Schiff), p.302.
2) Gifts (Ursula Le Guin), p.274.
3) America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Sarah Bradford), p.597.
4) Bluestockings (Jane Robinson), p.218.
5) Eat Pray Love (Elizabeth Gilbert), p.346.
6) How to be a Woman (Caitlin Moran), p.309.
7) In Siberia (Colin Thubron), p.278.
8) The Real ( Read more... )

Book List 2011

1) For Crying Out Loud: The World According to Clarkson Vol 3 (Jeremy Clarkson), p. 328.
2) And Another Thing: The World According to Clarkson Vol 2 (Jeremy Clarkson), p. 340.
3) Bravo Jubilee (Charlie Owen), p. 432.
4) The Lacuna (Barbara KIngsolver), p.670.
5) The Fourth Bear (Jasper Fforde), p. 383.
6) Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons ( Read more... )

You guys, it has come to my attention that no one has yet signed up to write for the Seafort saga. UNACCEPTABLE, not least because it's one of my requests! I have realised that this is because no one has heard of it, so allow me to bring some sweet, unadulterated joy into your lives and tell you all about the brave Nick Seafort and his many ill- ( Read more... )

The internets are back! Oh internets, I could kiss you.

I've been catching up on my reading for the last few days. I ran across the following, courtesy of
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I am so behind on these, there is a stack of notes accumulating on my desk that I needed to clear out.

These were a mixed bunch, with some outstanding books and some a little plodding. There is a definite bias towards biographies and histories, as I am somewhat still wrapped up in French history at the moment.

Racists
by Kunal Basu, p.214

( An interesting story, but it pulls its punches a little. )

Book List 2010

1) The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman) : (review)
2) Let the Right One In (John Ajvide Lindqvist) : (review)
3) The Night Watch (Sarah Waters) : (review)
4) The Virgin in the Garden (AS Byatt) : (review)
5) The Lathe of Heaven (Ursula Le Guin) : (review)
6) Bad Science (Ben Goldacre) : (review7) Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism ( ( Read more... )

Trying to catch up stuff I've read.

Title: Fabulous Things
Author: Kelly Braffet
Page count: 310 pages

5. ( A slightly twisted love story. )

A series of quickie reviews. This is all stuff before I went to Burkina, so there's a big pile of books I've yet to review still sitting about!

Title: The Luxe
Author: Anna Godbersen
Page count: 433 pages

( Ah, the perils of false advertising. )