Gagged by Richard Asplin
With Gagged (a thriller with jokes), Asplin tells the tale of two wannabe writers based in London who get caught up in a whirlwind plot involving blackmail, kidnapping, murder, mobsters, cowboys and...
View ArticleThe Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The religious undertones of this book would normally have had me running for cover, but when Fliss‘ dad offered it to me for a read, I figured I should give it a go. I had a rough idea what it was...
View ArticleFrank Skinner by Frank Skinner
I picked this autobiography up in early January, planning to save it as my holiday book on that ill advised trip to Malta. Although the holiday wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, the book was...
View ArticleThe Long Way Round
I read Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman’s tale of their motorcycle expedition Eastward from London to New York while we were on holiday recently, and found it to be an enthralling read. The book...
View ArticleRekindling an interest
For a long while I’d harboured the idea of acquiring an e-reader. I reasoned that I would be much more likely to read if I could take books with me in a format that would be more portable and also...
View Article20 books in 2020: Flowers for Algernon
I thought I’d challenge myself to read 20 books in 2020 because I felt I’d gotten out of the habit of reading and 20 was a reasonably high bar to set, considering even in a good year I’ve only read...
View Article20 books in 2020: I am the messenger
This was yet another recommendation from a friend at work and when I saw it was on sale I picked it up for my Kindle. The book, by Markus Zusak, unfolds in the form of a first-person narrative from the...
View Article20 Books in 2020: The Racketeer
I’ve now read quite a few John Grisham books and enjoy his detail and plausible, finely crafted delivery of the plot. That said, he does have a habit of keeping something so far up his sleeve that you...
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