It's a dark night and a crowd of people are at the Swan at Radcot drinking and telling tales that have been told over the years. It's a tradition to tell these stories. Then a man suddenly bursts in with a 4 year old little girl. The man is in a bad way and the little...
Nora Roberts is back with book number two in the Chronicles Of One Series, which continues the story started in the first book Year One last year. The story fast forwards to the 13th birthday of Fallon Swift and that means it is decision time. Will she go with Mallick...
The year is 1979 and Anton Winters is in the Peace Corps and has malaria. He's forced to return to his family and home in New York City. They live in the famous Dakota in the heart of the city. Anyone who's anyone lives there including John and Yoko. His father Buddy...
Author Sarah Bailey is back with second novel and follow up The Dark Lake, our first introduction to Gemma Woodstock. The second novel is Into The Night and it finds Gemma with a big change to her life. She's emotionally a mess and has now moved to Melbourne to start...
I read a lot of novels about killers, police detectives, missing children with lots of plot twists and turns. So if was refreshing when I got The Songbird by Marcia Willett. It's a story about family and friendship set on the estate of Brockscombe in the English...
Review by Russell Whitehouse Sex and student debt are viewed as two inevitable facets of university-student life. Kingston University’s Dr. Ron Roberts writes about the disturbing connections between these two and the state of academia as a whole in CAPITALISM ON...
Author Louise Penny is back with her 14th novel featuring Inspector Armand Gamache. My first time reading one of them and it is a really enjoyable story with great characters especially Inspector Gamache. This time around he's still on suspension from a previous story...
Just in time for the new Mary Poppins Returns movie comes this beautiful coffee table book of all things Mary Poppins. From beautiful pictures, to backstories on the Mary Poppins and how Disney came to make the movie. With lots of behind the scenes information with...
Joyce Carol Oates has been writing novels for many years now. And she's back with an interesting novel about a different United States where you have to watch what you do and say, as it can mean the difference between life and death. When you do something wrong you...
In the 2016 Presidential race Bernie Sanders started a movement that didn't quite get him to the end. The odds were stacked against him with Hillary Clinton getting most of the support from the Democratic committee and the super-delegates. Still Bernie defied the odds...