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Perfume by Patrick Suskind

I found this quite an odd book altogether. It is quite disturbing and unsettling, yet I felt I had to read to the end to find out what would happen to the main character, Grenouille, as I couldn’t imagine what his ending would be. (I have to say also, the ending fitted with […]

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I picked up this book for a pound in a second hand bookshop purely as the title sounded so intriguing – there is just something about the thought of reading a diary, something almost forbidden and guilt inducing. Then I read the back and realised the inn in question was fairly local to me […]

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Review supplied by Ekta
In today’s difficult times when mother nature is warming up, human relations are faltering and freedom is being misused, “Temple of Destiny” is a welcome reading. It takes us into a world of self-observation and self-realisation. The simple positive medium of connectivity with nature touches the soul. A must treasure.

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This is a children’s book so is not one I would normally read, and I therefore find it difficult to judge whether it was good or not as I’m obviously not the target reader, and the subject matter (spies) isn’t really one that interests me greatly. But having said that, I did find […]

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I do absolutely adore Penny Vincenzi books, but, although I enjoyed this, I felt it wasn’t one of my favourites and I probably wouldn’t read it again and again as I do her others. Normally one of the main things I like about Vincenzi’s books are the details of her characters; you end up […]

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Review supplied by Jack Henry Collings
Close to the wind by Ben Ainslie is the best book of my life it has thrills and depressing times in this breathtaking autobiography

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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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