I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this book as I knew it was a book aimed at teenagers so wasn’t expecting that much, but I found it really gripping and clever and well thought out and the storyline went in a direction I wasn’t expecting. The book is about a boy called Stanley [...]
04 Jun
Posted by Jo as Book Reviews
I found this quite an unusual book and thought it was a very interesting idea. Christopher has autism so he sees the world and people he meets differently to most people. He finds the neighbour’s dog dead and is determined to find out who killed it. Christopher sees things in a very black and white [...]
I don’t usually read autobiographies, but I adore Stephen Fry so couldn’t resist reading his. It reads very well, and I like the way it skips about in a fairly random fashion from subject to subject much as if he was really speaking to you and a thought occurs to him and he goes off [...]
This is the story of Mike Engleby, in the form of his journal, beginning with his time at university in the 1970s, looking back to his school days, and coming up to present day. The novel develops from just a journal into a very clever and unusual piece of work as a fellow student (Jennifer) [...]
This was a great book to read. It is the story of several characters living their lives in London during the period of the war – some of their actions and the difficulties they face are influenced by the effects of war, but many are just the characters making normal mistakes, concealing secrets, having relationships, [...]
This book surprised me as it seemed more of a ‘chick-lit’ book than I expected it to be. It is the story of Brian Jackson and the beginning of his life at university, how he tries to fit in with the community there while still being loyal to his friends and mother back home, his [...]
I think I have mentioned a few times that Wilkie Collins is one of my favourite authors so I was keen to read this book. It is the story of Rosamond Frankland and her blind husband Lenny, and the secret hidden in their house Porthgenna Tower by Sarah Leeson, a previous servant who worked there. [...]
I very much enjoyed this book and it felt like a treat as it was almost two books in one; the first being set in Birlstone Manor House with Sherlock and Dr Watson investigating the gruesome murder of Mr Douglas, and the second set in ‘The Valley of Fear’ in Vermissa Valley in America detailing [...]
I was very keen to read this book as I loved The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. I did find it gripping, but not as interesting and memorable as the two books above; both of which altered my thinking and ideas about the Bible and religion and I thought were influential books. The [...]
The story is about Sir Henry Baskerville and the legend connected with his family of a vicious dog that hunts and kills members of the Baskerville family. After Sir Henry’s relative, Sir Charles Baskerville, is found dead with a look of horror on his face and with huge animal footprints in the ground beside him, [...]