Sorry readers, while this book is excellently written and the detail terrific, and some of it is quite sad (and other bits frightening) I do not like the main character, maverick Detective Declan Miller.
Whilst yes, Detective Miller is excellent …
‘Divorced , beheaded , died survived‘
Alison Weir’s latest book about the Tudors is thick (over six hundred pages) enthralling and vibrantly written with massive detail. The amount of research Weir must have done is incredible. It begins with a …
This is a fascinating examination and blend of art, science, theology and mysticism , packed with information. The research is amazing . Jennifer Higgie writes in an easy to read style with great acuteness and perception . There’s a …
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This book will probably become a required textbook for university philosophy students, rather than those seeking to know more about the Romantic painters and poets (although yes they are mentioned ).
It is of medium size but quite …
Can you forget committing a murder?
This is a gripping, compulsive page turner of a book with unexpected twists. It is the third in the Detective Harbinder Kaur series, divided into forty seven chapters and a prologue and epilogue.
In …
What a life!
Welcome to the extraordinary life of Kiki Man Ray/Kiki de Montparnasse, artist’s model, muse, cabaret star, painter, film star, author…While a major luminary of the Paris art world, especially of the 1920’s, her life has until …
David Lagercrantz (1962 – ) is a Swedish journalist and author, internationally known as the author of I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye and The …
Roaming across assorted continents and three generations, the reader gets swept along in this epic tale of love, regret , loss of family , language , culture and country , the horrors of war , migration ,a quest for identity …
Family secrets are revealed and time and space seem fluid and fractured in this enthralling, splendidly written book.
Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript Award, HOVERING crosses genres, literary styles and conventions to create a powerful and kaleidoscopic story …