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I mentioned "The Nonesuch" by Georgette Heyer in my last post but I wanted to devote some more paragraphs to it, because as you ...

It's quite rare for me to read book after book by the same author (unless that author is Georgette Heyer - you may have noticed...) b...

When it comes to comfort reading, reading to escape everyday life for something a little more glamourous and romantic, nothing beats a Georg...

Jay McInerney does vacuous, shallow, wealth-drugs-or-fame obsessed characters really well, better than most other writers and so good tha...

This is going to be a short review because I really don't have a lot to say about "The Master of Knots" by Massimo Carlotto...

I'm not really a big fan of crime fiction. It is a genre that is encumbered with more than an average amount of bad writing and often...

Ever found yourself in the kitchen, cooking the same old dish once again (possibly for the fifth or six Monday in a row, Monday being a par...

Few authors can do for me what Georgette Heyer does. Her novels make me instantly feel relaxed and comfortable. They're like the faci...

Sometimes a narrator will tell the story with real feeling, drawing you in and playing on your heartstrings. Giving you unlimited access t...

Looking for the perfect read for a holiday or a relaxing Sunday? One that will make you laugh with intelligent twists? Look no further t...

Vicky at Books, Biscuits and Tea hosts a Showcase Sunday which is always quite fun and today I thought that I'd take part. This is ...

Chaz Perrone is a douchebag, this is clear from the first page of Carl Hiaasen's "Skinny Dip" where aforementioned Mr. Perro...

Since I finished "A Discovery of Witches" by Deborah Harkness in September 2011, I'd been looking forward to reading the se...

Any book that puts the word "Pemberley" in the title is setting itself up for scrutiny because there are a lot of girls out the...

...that begins like this: At the stroke of eleven on a cool April night, a woman named Joey Perrone went overboard from a luxury deck of...

It's the time for resolutions and although I have made any real New Year's resolutions, I'm up for making some bookish ones. ...

I've always been really interested in the history of women, I love reading about influential women in history and about those points...

5.  "The City and The City" by C hina Mieville A tremendous piece of fiction about an assumedly Eastern European city which ...

Here we go - the first half of my top ten of books read in 2012:  10.  "Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady" by Florence ...

There are few genres that I genuinely have no interest in. Handbooks on DIY is one of them and sports literature is another. Yet I’ve ...

There are books that are written in a way that makes them obvious contenders for a film contract. Like Twilight or Hunger Games. The a...

Have you heard of Simon Wiesenthal? If not you seriously need to google him pretty much right now. He was a very special, very cool man w...

Have you ever wondered what on earth persuaded you to buy those red skinny jeans/that post-modern poetry collection/the deconstructed flow...

I like a good memoir or a non-fiction book by a strong women who has opinions and experiences that the rest of us can learn from. These wom...