The book, written 30 years ago, includes a Forward which sums it up nicely: This is a lighthearted tale of a desperate knight in search of...
Everyone reads them at some stage and many are so influenced by a good story that they adopt life changes to match. True stories are obviously...
This is the one book that has inspired wars, terrorism, love, and hate and it is all fiction. It came into being towards the end of...
Although this book is fiction, it is based on real life tragedies that have been experienced by close friends of the author, so the story is...
In Ayala’s Angel by Anthony Trollope, we are treated to a light-hearted account of the pursuit of matrimonial happiness by several characters. Its basic theme, that...
Disney’s big-budget adaptation of the best-selling novel “A Wrinkle in Time” falters in many of the same ways the book does- but there was one major...
Between The Acts by Virginia Woolf is the author’s last novel. It is often described as a difficult read. And indeed, difficult it is, not because...
Reprise, by Simon Plaster, continues his series of humorous and satirical novels about Henrietta Hebert, who has gone from being an investigative reporter to now being a...
I did not begin the two hundred thousand words plus of Moby Dick expecting to be surprised. Herman Melville’s book has been on my reading list...
Billy Budd is doubly famous. He is the eponymous principal character of Herman Melville’s novella and, by adoption via E M Forster’s hand, also the eponymous...
Half Blood Blues is a novel by Esi Edugyan. It deals with territory that is rarely successful for the writer, that of music and musicians. They...
insurance officers keep us alive and kicking – so they say -but they’re booby traps and will suck you under like sinking sands, I you aren’t...