This is the (unless I’m wrong) fifth book to feature Thursday Next and her adventures in BookWorld and despite officially being retired and running the ACME carpet store, our heroine - who remarkably is now 52 - doesn’t seem to be settling into the quiet life at all, in fact far from it. She’s [...]
In the aftermath of a global flood in which animals and humans are equally effected food, medicines, tools and all other resources have become very scarce. In the middle of what used to be England, the Ecks family - Preacher John and his two sons - have established ‘The Island’, their own private domain, [...]
I’ll come clean from the beginning here by saying that I love this series and not just because it’s great story-telling, but because it does so many things really well. On the surface it’s an epic story of war that ranges across continents, told through the eyes of a small band of people from [...]
I’ve had this book sitting on my pile for a while now and I while I thought I ought to read it - it’s had rave reviews everywhere - it really didn’t grab me. Now that I’ve read it I have to say my first impressions were right but I seem to be in [...]
Terry Pratchett hit on a winning formula for the Discworld novels a long time ago. He takes an aspect of modern living and writes a story about how it comes to the discworld - usually in or around Ankh-Morpork - and in doing so takes a satirical and often very funny swipe at the [...]
I’d heard lots of good things about this book, the online world was buzzing about it for a while, and while the title was definitely intriguing enough to make me want to read it, one glance at the minor artistic miracle that is the cover was all it took to convince me to escalate this [...]
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