Always have one or more books on the go, but I tend to only read them in bed or travelling. So quite slow progress.
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A new historian of Mary Queen of Scots draws on new sources to shatter various myths surrounding this odd monarch …
Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Forgotten Books', a labyrinthine library of …
223 pages ; 20 cm
The World According to Garp is John Irving's fourth novel, about a man, born out of wedlock to a feminist …
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (published in the United States as The Trial of Elizabeth Cree) is a 1994 …
I wanted to look at the Surrealist art that Miéville refers to before 'finishing' this book.
I came across the excellently curated Graphic Annotations of China Miéville’s The Last Days of New Paris and a useful review Who’s up for some Surrealist warfare? The Last Days of New Paris, by China Miéville.
La Belle Sauvage is a fantasy novel by Philip Pullman published in 2017. It is …
Compared to His Dark Materials, rather tedious and seemingly aimed more at the young teen market.
FINALLY, THE COMPLETE BLACK ROOM SAGA, ALL IN ONE VOLUME!
There are hangovers, there are bad hangovers, and then there's …
Well, a bit of a disappointment. I bought this to find out more about life in the 'underground' old town.
It covers it quite briefly and I did learn more, but the paranormal accounts were badly written and badly edited. Stories often repeated bits so it read like a lot of stories which had originally been 'stand-alone' had just been put together.
Ben Coates: Why the Dutch are different (2016, Nicholas Brealey Publishing)
"In the first book to consider the hidden history of the Netherlands from a modern perspective, author Ben Coates explores …
"Nothing needs a rethink: all too easily, we ignore or dismiss the faxcinating possibilities of emptiness and non-existence. For centuries, …
