Jayne

This is a completly different type to the other books I have read by Willa Cather. Professor St Peter has built a new house on the proceed's of his life 's works - that is eight volume history of the Spanish Explorers!

Love You Mean It is a true story of love, loss and friendship when the twin towers came down. I could so relate to the feelings of these four wives of the desolation of not saying ‘Goodbye' properly. I had also been able to talk to my nephew's wife who went through the same agony when she lost her husband in this horrific mass murder event.

This is the third book of Polly Evan's that I have read and in this one she definitely does the journey by conventional transport. All four of her books are amazing, she knows so much about the history of the places that she visits and helps to explain where and what she sees in words as there are no picutes in her books. This seems a shame because some of the places that she visits would benefit from pictures to show why she found them so powerul and beautiful.

Restless I thought was going to be a book I could not get into but when at the end of the first chapter it seemed that something else was about to happen and exposed to stories within one book- I was hooked. William Boyd knows how to keep an audience on their toes and not be able to put his book down. I read it over a weekend to take me mind away from my own problems, it certainly did that and had me dreaming of subdifuge and secret service etc. I had no idea that things were devulged to the press and then expounded so that others would read them and twist them yet again. ..read more

TARKA THE OTTER was one of the books I did as part of my English Literature Teaching Course at University. Mum has recently given me special copy of this book a comemerative edition by the Folio Society in 2005. This edition was reprinted with a new forward by Paul Schofield - The text of this edition follows that of the 1964 Nonesuch Cygnet edition, which includes the author's final revisions.

The Vacillations of Poppy Carew kept me enthralled from start to finish with its twists and turns of a girl who looses her father; but on his death bed she makes him laugh out loud and then he dies. Why does he laugh because she has dumped her boyfriend Edmund who he dislikes enormously.

The Other Side of You was not what I expected it to be. It is a story of a woman named Elizabeth Cruikshank who is a failed suicide case is admitted to the care of psychiatrist Dr. David McBride. Her doctor tells how she finally gets Elizabeth to tell him why she tried to commit suicide. It is amazing story and how various things will link to places around the world and some wonderful paintings that help her to tell what happened to her.

Nora Roberts had me yet again on the edge of my seat as I read Heavan & Earth. Her main charactor RipleyTodd is perfectly content with life but discovers she has special powers that not only frighten her but confuse her - though she tries hard to hide them, she can not get them under control.

She meets a handsome man by the name of MacAllister Brooke who has come to search out the stories about the Three Sisters Island and the rumours on witchcraft that haunt the Island. But I won't say more you need to read the book.

Immortal in Death by J D Robb is a fabulous read, I could not put it down - a great murder mystery.

With its twists and turns of Eve Dallas the new lieutenant in homicide is soon to be married but it looks as though her marriage will have to go on hold when her two lives collide.

The murder victim is one of the most sought after woman in the world. Robb knows her subject matter well and describes every twist and turn of this mystery story with her amazing talent with words and discriptive language.

The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks is a great read and is about the family who own the game EMPIRE on which they built their fortune. The book has many hidden agendas and inspires both compromised loyalties and personal desires that plague the Wopuld Family who are trying to come to a decision on whether to allow an American company to by them out or not - but read on and find out more for yourself.