The Night Watch
By choosing WWII as a setting, Waters sets up dramatic symbolism in The Night Watch, as the physical destruction that's wreaked on London
Rebecca
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again... You might recognize those haunting first lines from Daphne du Maurier's gothic suspense chiller, Rebecca.
Mary Tudor: Courageous Queen Or Bloody Mary?
I'll start this review by saying that I highly recommend Mary Tudor: Courageous Queen or Bloody Mary? by Jane Buchanan.
Angel in Distress
Angel will leave you wondering whether to laugh or cry for Angelica Deverell, who's so much the centre of this novel, I promise she'll redefine your notion of self-centeredness.
84 Charing Cross Road Review
84 Charing Cross Road will resonate with anyone who relishes the tactile beauty of regally bound, hand press books
Vanity Fair Review,
I learned this past week that I share a birthday with an eminent Vanity Fair novelist, William Makepeace Thackeray
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
Antony & Cleopatra
Antony & Cleopatra is fast-paced, almost suspenseful (even though, it being a Shakespearean tragedy, we know how the major players will meet their end).
A Far Cry From Kensington
A Far Cry from Kensington offers a wry send-up of the London publishing scene with its debtors, eccentrics, high-maintenance authors and bottomless well of hangers-on.
The Luzhin Defense
What I find so interesting about The Defense is how Nabokov envelops readers in Luzhin's consciousness
The Fairy Tales
The Fairy Tales are also appropriate, despite their darker elements, for children who have perhaps overindulged on the sugar-coated Disney versions
The Adventures of Frog and Toad
Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad Are Friends, published in 1970, is the first in a series of four books about these two famous friends
The Moonstone
The Moonstone is a very long tale about a precious gem stolen from the brow of a Hindu deity that wreaks havoc on an English family
Blaming
Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor is the story of an unlikely friendship that forms between Amy, an Englishwoman, and Martha, an American