Book Reviews
DEFINITELY MORE bang for your bucks, Stephenie Meyer’s long-awaited fourth book in the Twilight series is a whopping 700 pages long and settles the question that ran…
TO BE fair, all languages need ‘demystifying’. That of most concern to us living here in Spain is the general language of our hosts, i.e. Castellano. And…
JAMES PATTERSON is probably best known for his Alex Cross police detective novels and that’s where I first became familiar with his work. But some years back…
THE TITLE would suggest a novel by Stephen King or grey lady EL James but this book is of neither genre. Instead the storyline revolves around two…
DESPITE THE Jackie Collins aura of the snappy title, this is a serious study into the parts pornography, war, and food has played in the development of…
TOM CHESSHYRE is a journalist who likes to travel and he hit on the idea of writing a travel book about Britain. Not just any travel book…
THIS BOOK came as a surprise, for as well as I know the works of Julian Barnes – Flaubert’s Parrot, Arthur & George, et al – I’d…
THE STORY is set in wartime Europe. John Russell, an American war correspondent, once a staunch supporter of the Bolshevik Revolution and now disillusioned, pleads with Moscow…
THIS IS a delightful book of the childhood of Marrie Walsh, born in County Mayo, Ireland, in 1929. Marrie Walsh lived with her family in the village…

