Horror / Thriller
This is from an author I’d never read before so wasn’t sure what to expect. The cover design didn’t particularly scream quality to me (yes, judging a book by it’s cover etc). However, the quality of the writing cannot be denied, this is a supremely well written story.
It is advertised as a horror book but I would describe it as a horror backdrop for a slow-burn thriller…
Fiction / Slice of Life
Many of us know Len Deighton for some of his more famous books such as The Ipcress File or SS-GB. This one I’d say counts as one of his more obscure works and if ever there was a hard book to rate, it would be this one. The story is about a “fictional” famous actor and a writer who has the task of writing his biography. We see glimpses of the actor’s current life which appears to be at it’s peak, and him wondering where…
(more…)Thriller
I remember seeing this book everywhere a few years back.
At home, book in hand, I read what it was about and immediately thought that it would not make for my kind of reading. It sounded like it just wouldn’t be my thing. I like action, adventure, fast-paced escapism from anything everyday, but I turned to the first page to see and I’ll fairly say that it hooked me in from…
Non-fiction / Economics
A fascinating introduction into the economics that affect our everyday life and a little further beyond. A very well written piece with a good writing style and if I could I’d give this 3.5 stars but since…
(more…)Non-fiction / Travel
A very well written book in which we are recounted the memories of Chris Broad who has travelled to Japan to teach English.
This is not a typical book of memoirs – while it follows Chris from his initial job interview at the Japanese Embassy in London and onwards to teaching in Japan and his further life there, the cultural insights we experience are…
Non-fiction / Naval History
I found this book interesting, detailed, and introduced me to an event (the shipwreck of the Wager) during a time that I don’t know much about (the War of Jenkin’s Ear).
I like to read a healthy amount of both fiction and non-fiction and having seen this book mentioned positively…
Non-fiction / History
We’ve just finished this gem. It’s snarky, sarky, and full of wit. It doesn’t go into a huge amount of detail for each monarch (that would require several books all in itself) but gives a general overview of…
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