Non Fiction

I found John Lennon's letters absolutely riveting - and yes they are quite often mundane, but it is in this mundaneness that we learn more. It was fascinating to hear Yoko Ono read the foreword - it just felt weird as if she didn't quite feel comfortable with it! But the introduction by Hunter Davies was very very long but again lots of fascinating details of how owners of letters discovered that they'd been sold on by family and friends never to be gotten back and of course much much more.

Wow! What a tale! You are immediately drawn into life on the sea and what happens to the crew with a cargo of whisky! It is both enthralling and amazing that the author actually made it to the end. His characters - true of course - make for lively reading! And by the end of the journey 950 bottle of whisky have disappeared!

You won't believe that this is a true story because it reads like a thrilling fictional adventure on the high seas. All I can say it buy it and enjoy it.

Fans of crime and London are in for a treat with this 400 page epic which brings to life the capital's murderers from medieval times.

From the foul-stenched, cramped medieval streets to the respectable suburbs of Finchley, Decharne transports the reader back in time and place so that you can almost breath in the atmosphere.

Charting seven centuries of murderous mayhem, Decharne takes in the wealthiest in society but also the poorest revolting peasants who ran amok through London in support of Wat Tyler in 1381.

This is the sort of book that you will either love or hate as it is a very definitely outside of the box that makes you think.

This is an amazing book with an extraordinary cover picture of a woman covered in bees!

They say that great things come in small packages and this is certainly true of David Norton's book ‘ The King James Bible' A short History From Tyndale to Today. He shows us through comparing different bibles of the time with texts and facsimiles how the translation has evolved over a period of four centuries and includes evidence from the diary of John Bois.

As an ex midwife and a mother of 5 children - now all grown up and having their own babies, I find that this is a brilliantly well written book, full of excellent information for all mothers to be.

A fascinating book that recounts the lives of some of the first class passengers who boarded the Titanic on April 12. It is an insight into a completly different world where money and class
were a way of life - it explores how their wealth was created and the aftermath of their lives after the fatel sinking.

Alex Brummer is an award winning financial journalist with an easy style of writing that immediately grabs your attention. I was shocked to discover that over 50% of all British companies are now foreign owned which includes our utility companies such as water, gas and electricity plus a bank or two - but the one that finally got the British publics attention was the hostile Kraft take over of the iconic Cadbury's company. What was it about this take over that made us all so angry?

I very much enjoyed 'The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker' - it was an incredibly fascinating insight into what made the author tick and who and what his influences where.