Category Archives: Harper Collins
The Queen of Whale Cay – Kate Summerscale
I would like to pretend that after having read ‘The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher’ I had popped Kate Summerscale’s first non-fiction novel ‘The Queen of Whale Cay’ onto my to be read list. That wouldn’t be true. In fact for … Continue reading
Filed under Books of 2011, Harper Collins, Kate Summerscale, Review
Purple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
‘Purple Hibiscus’, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s debut novel, is one I have been meaning to read ever since I was completely blown away by her Orange Prize Winning ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’. That book really took me by surprise, I … Continue reading
Filed under Book Group, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Harper Collins, Review
The Mermaids Singing – Val McDermid
I know that to describe a book as ‘a page-turner’ is an over used cliché in a lot of reviews, including my own, but sometimes no other short expression will suffice. Val McDermid has been an author that I have … Continue reading
Filed under Books of 2011, Harper Collins, Review, Val McDermid
Toast – Nigel Slater
It is thanks to routing through other peoples shelves (I’m going to do a post on the joys of other people’s shelves and having a nosey next week) that I ended up reading a book that I probably wouldn’t have … Continue reading
Filed under Books of 2011, Books To Film, Harper Collins, Nigel Slater, Review
The Bookboy Reads #3
I am very sorry that I have not had time to do a blog of late, but I have been inordinately busy. In response to some of your comments on my last blog, I love the Harry Potter books and … Continue reading
The Bookshop – Penelope Fitzgerald
One of the things that lead me to wanting to have a little break from the blogging recently was that I had got myself into the habit of reading to write about the books on here. That isn’t necessarily a … Continue reading
Filed under Books About Books, Flamingo Books, Harper Collins, Penelope Fitzgerald, Review
The Big Four – Agatha Christie & Alain Paillou
From the title of today’s post you could be mistaken for thinking that Agatha Christie had co-written some novels in the vein of James Patterson with some of his thrillers, however this is not the case. In fact what we … Continue reading
Filed under Agatha Christie, Graphic Novels, Harper Collins, Review
The Girl Who Read Too Much
So this blog seems to be turning into a bit of a family affair, you have already had several posts from Granny Savidge Reads. Next up was ‘The Bookboy’ who I hear is working on his next post. This week … Continue reading
253 – Geoff Ryman
I first heard about Geoff Ryman’s novel ‘253’ as a recommendation from Michael Kindness on one of my favourite podcasts ‘Books on the Nightstand’ and it instantly appealed. I then slightly obsessed about it to the point that TCO bought … Continue reading
Filed under Books of 2010, Geoff Ryman, Harper Collins, Review
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
A while back when I mentioned I wanted to read some Brazilian based books or books by a Brazilian author ‘The Alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho was mentioned quite a few times. He is after all one of the biggest selling … Continue reading
Filed under Harper Collins, Paulo Coelho, Review
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? – Agatha Christie
When I mentioned I was having somewhat of a rough time reading wise recently Claire suggested that I either turn to Mitford or Christie (wise words indeed) I actually went for ‘The Graveyard Book’ but then when another slump hit … Continue reading
Filed under Agatha Christie, Harper Collins, Review
Falling Angels – Tracy Chevalier
I am trying to think for the life of me why I haven’t read any of Tracey Chevaliers books before ‘Falling Angels’? I think I had gotten the impression they might be a bit historically twee. Where do we get … Continue reading
Filed under Harper Collins, Review, Tracy Chevalier
