While recently on holidays in Italy, one of my travelling companions produced the Lonely Planet Italian phrasebook. This little book is an absolute must have while traversing the Italian countryside. Filled with useful phrases
It Started with a Wish looks like an ordinary run of the mill chick-lit book. However, this is one with a difference. It is more of a mystery story as the main character, Sophia Jordan, seems to be plagued by a ghost from her past. Super successful and
Pamela and Dave have been married for seven years, meeting while in college and surviving together as two starving artists. Eventually the world wore them down and now they have jobs as a hospital administrator and interior designer. After five years of gruelling
Typically modest, Jane Austen described her novels as “The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour”. In writing this biography, Carol Shields could have taken
In January 2003 Åsne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. Through bribery, pleading and begging she stayed for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her account of life
Jude is going through a difficult time. Her mother died last year and since then she feels uncertain as to who she is. Her life seems to be in free-fall and she’s tumbling from one event to the next. She has a feeling of detachment from her family – husband
Alice Rimmer was abandoned at Netherlands Orphanage when she was little more than a baby. But unlike the rest of the orphans Alice is different from the start: she has her own personality, she is defiant and she clings to the hope that her parents
True page-turners of a certain caliber are hard to find. I have been on the look out for a book that I would sink into from page one for many months now. Although I have found many wonderful books, this book will take you briefly into another
Sometimes the most fascinating literary crimes are the ones that happen for real. Forget the cult of celebrity and Hello magazine, nothing grabs the public attention faster than real-life murder. Even more so if at first it appears to be motiveless
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection of short stories Interpreter of Maladies would be one to recommend. This book flew of the shelf and into my hand on the wings of its stunning title. Later, I was pleased to find that as the pages
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