The Night Watch follows the intertwined lives of 6 young people living in London during the war. All of them are experiencing their own struggles and none of them quite ‘fit in’ to the norm....

I was pleased to find this article on the Guardian website this morning about The London Review of Books. I am a regular subscriber of this exquisitely written publication and although I probably have...

Revolutionary Road can be summed up as a depressing book written in beautiful, poetic prose. I hadn’t expected to enjoy it, but despite the darkness of the subject matter and the full awareness of...

Hello… Remember me? I’m that person who used to read lots and lots of books and then would write reviews about them which were hopefully interesting and intelligent, always personal, and...

This is the first autobiography that I have been asked to review. I will confess, biographies don’t appear within my preferred genres although many of the ones I have read I have enjoyed very much....

La Symphonie Pastorale was written in 1919. The copy that I own also contained a second story, Isabelle which complemented the original story perfectly. Both were suffused with longing, loss and tragic...

Life has gone somewhat wrong for Ben Mercer. His wife has left him for a man who was their archaeology professor at university, taking his daughter and any plans for a future he may have had. Ben is...

Most of you would probably notice that I have been less diligent with my book blog recently than I have been in the past. I always post reviews for books I have been asked to read and review on time,...

This book was written to lay out a theory of Epigenetic medicine, a term I had never come across despite my fascination with science.  A search on the internet for the term brings up quite a few...

I started reading this book the day before the recent swine flu scare hit Europe. It was pretty ironic timing, as Abe F. March’s novel, They Plotted Revenge Against Amercia tells the story of a...