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I find it difficult to judge whether I actually enjoyed this book or not. On the plus side it is an extremely gripping read, very clever plot twists, and a book you end up thinking about while you’re sat at work waiting to get home in the evening to carry on reading it. […]

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I had been keen to read this book for ages as I know it’s received really good reviews and attention (and I usually like the Richard & Judy Book Club choices too!). But I found it quite an odd book. The first two thirds seemed to drag, the final third was more engrossing, […]

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Review supplied by Sue
As a new reader of Robert Goddard novels Into the Blue was recommended to me by a friend as being ‘one of the best’! I certainly wasn’t disappointed! ‘Unputdownable’ from the start - Goddard enables the reader to get to know the main characters and feel a sympathy but admiration […]

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I wasn’t really thinking I’d particularly like this book, as I’m not into mountain climbing and cannot comprehend that urge to climb something just because it is there and to put your life in danger doing so. But I honestly couldn’t put the book down; and all the time I wasn’t reading it, I […]

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Review supplied by Rob Larkins
I found this book very readable and enjoyable. It is one of the Inspector Lynley books. Lynley is walking along the South West Coastal path in an effort to deal with the death of his wife, and is wanting to leave his life and job behind. He then […]

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I had only read Du Maurier’s better known books before (Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn) so wondered if her lesser known ones would be as gripping. This perhaps wasn’t as foreboding and as full of unseen menace as Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel, but it was gripping and dramatic never-the-less and a […]

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I adore all the Jeeves & Wooster books, they actually make me laugh out loud. They are completely silly, but totally charming, and I love the world in which Bertie Wooster lives. The situations he finds himself in are so funny, and he is so totally inept at dealing with them – and […]

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Review supplied by Matthew Martin
I chose to read this novel because it was the winner of the Daily Mail First Novel Award and I like to support new writers and discover new talent for myself.
I loved this book, I found the style of writing easy to read and the story was captivating.
This is the story […]

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Pimp by Iceberg Slim

Review supplied by Daryl Moore
pimp is an epic biopic an insight into the inner workings of a razor sharp mind. Living the gritty life of a pimp on the streets grimy streets of Chicago in a time cleverly forgotten. Slim passes down age old lessons in pimpdom on how to keep iceberg cool and scratch […]

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I began this book with great anticipation as I adore all the other Wilkie Collins’ novels that I have read. However, I didn’t rate this one as highly as I have done the others – I still enjoyed it, but it didn’t have the suspense factor and excitement of his other books. To […]

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Classic Book Club

Please leave your reviews and comments about any books you have read, whether they be old classics such as Bronte, Austen or Dickens, or modern-day classics such as Dan Brown, Cathy Kelly or Marian Keyes.