What Was She Thinking?
What Was She Thinking? is narrated by a spinster history teacher who befriends a new colleague who winds up shagging one of her students
A Few Frightening Tales
I can’t let Halloween slip by without recommending a few stories that might make you check the recesses of your closet before going to bed
A Series of Unfortunate Events
In a coup of numerological (and bibliographic) symmetry, Lemony Snicket delivered the final instalment in the A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Prime of Miss Jean Brody
The Prime of Miss Jane Brody is a story about five girls and their unconventional teacher, Miss Jean Brodie, who is just entering her prime
The Oxford Murders
In The Oxford Murders, an unnamed narrator from Buenos Aires wins a scholarship to study algebraic topology at Oxford.
Wrapping Machinery Explained and Defined
The term wrapping and overwrapping when applied to packaging equipment and machinery covers a broad family of machine types and styles
Picture Book Picks for Kids
Research shows that children who are read to from birth develop key skills (page-turning, reading left to right, narrative understanding, faster
Reads on Writing
I thought that in the spirit of back to school I'd offer you a few of what I think to be fine books on the art of writing
The Bullet Trick
The Bullet Trick is a crime thriller that begins in a seedy club in a Soho. The narrative cuts back and forth from a cabaret in Berlin, Glasgow and London
In the Pursuit of Love
First, make no mistake that The Pursuit of Love is an English novel. So the bias -- and the root of the satire -- is all British