Disconnecting from the world around us is something we all crave at some point, but finding the right place to escape to, for even just a few days, can be quite a daunting challenge. When You Say You Want to ‘Get Away From it All’ What Does That Really Mean?…
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Big Little Lies is one of those stories that any serious crime fiction reader glances at, looks at the cover and automatically believes it will be too girly for them. It looks all sweet and innocent with the book jacket giving off more of a girly-girl vibe than a hard-hitting…
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Star Rating: **** First Published by Harvill Secker in 2014 Pages: 358 (Paperback edition) The Story-Line of ‘Dear Daughter’ We all forget, it’s in our nature but imagine forgetting something important. Something like whether you have killed someone. This is exactly what happened to Jane Jenkins. To make matters worse…
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Star Rating: *** Pages: 198 (paperback version) First published in 2014 by Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd The Narrative If you are after a comic recap about a road-trip style holiday around Europe in an old campervan ‘Gullible’s Troubles’ is a book for you. Suzi and Bill are an Australian…
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Being a city, London has always had its fair share of notorious criminals but how would you react if you came face-to-face with one of them? When you lose the ability to use one of your senses fully you realise just how vulnerable you become. Standing here, for what feels…
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With thousands of people choosing to visit the UK each year to explore the history of such a small nation it is understandable that when people descend upon the city of London they flock to the historical attractions. Visiting Buckingham Palace, retracing the footsteps of Kings and Queens from bygone…
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Star Rating: ***** Pages: 308 (E-book Version) First published by Simi Books in 2014 “The country, largest along its east-west axis, looked like a whale beached between India and China, themselves two vast oceans teeming with life. The country was relatively small compared to its neighbouring giants, but considering the…
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Stars: **** Pages: 239 (e-book edition) First published by Outskirts Press Inc. in 2011 Mixing past and present this is both a travelogue, conveying the best stop-off points whilst driving north from Mexico to Canada, and a personal diary of childhood road trip memories. In Jason’s opening chapter we gain…
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Stars: *** Pages: 239 First published in 1973 by Hutchinson “Rendell is a great storyteller who knows how to make sure that the reader has to turn the pages out of a desperate need to find out what is going to happen next” (John Mortimer, Sunday Times) The sleepy town…
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This week we interview author Max Boyle, a teacher of English who also has a passion for Eastern Europe. After teaching in the Czech Republic and then travelling through the countryside of Estonia he decided to write about his experiences, penning two books Touching Velvet and The Indrawn Heart.
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