Wendy

I found this a very poignant book. The authors vivid descriptions of loss and betrayal and the emotional turmoil and resentment on all sides is heart wrenching. A beautifully written book in an almost poetic style it is a joy to read.

The Thames is a sequel to the book that the Peter Ackroyd wrote about London. He has an almost spritual and inspirational way with words. All aspects of the Thames are covered from its source at Tewsbury Mead to where the river meets the sea at Tilbury. Peter Ackrpoyd shows us how the Thames is celebrated in Art and Literature, and the part it played in Englands long and turblent history.

This is a book that is written for children and the main character is a girl called Theodora who comes to Venice
with her parents and her subsquent adventures with friend Rezo. The author has cleverly used Venetian legends with notorious people who actually lived in the 15th century.

This is fantasy writing at its best with sea monsters in the deep, ghosts and ghouls in churchyards and narrow passages. My favourites are the beautiful mermaids and their sailors lingo - 'My gils was atwitch,I might have knowed it. Human children smell most peculiar I do declare freely'.

Cut Short is the debut crime novel by Leigh Russell.

The story is about a serial killer and the police investigation. I like the character of D.I.Gerealdine Steele because I could identify with her - she comes across as a hard working humane person who is very much in tune with the people around her.

This book is set in 1799 when Europe was in turmoil after the French Revolution. Anti Napoelon German
Nationslism was mostly in the German states that had been absorbed by France. Micheal Wrey who supported the French Revolution became very dissolutioned with the French ideals and has switched sides to become a spy for the Bishop Prince of Erzberg.

This is the second book in Abbess of Meaux murder mysteries.The nun Hildgrard is sent on a mission to buy a holy relic for the Abbey.This journey will take her from England across the Alpes and eventually to Florence.

This book is one of the most amusing that I have read for a very long time,it is a send up of the country house
murders where all suspects are rounded up in the Drawing Room and the guilty party is revealed.

The main characters are Ethelred who is a crime writer and Elsie who is his agent, who seems to spend most of her time keeping Ethelred on the straight and narrow, while feeding her addiction to chocolate.

The dialogue between them is so sharp and witty it is almost like a comedy act. A very funny book with a clever plot and an absolute joy to read.

I enjoyed reading Love Not Poison which is a light entertaining story with a very good plot. She writes in a similar genre to Gaorgette Heyer.Just the book to take on holiday!

An enthralling book about the Italian P.O.W.S.who converted two huts into a chapel at Lamb Holm in the Orkneys.Kirtsen Mckenzie gives us an insight into what life was like for the Italians, who lived there under very difficult circumstances with the extreme cold and gruelling hard work yet they found the time and the energy to convert and decorate this chapel.I believe that these men were on a spritual journey becouse this project gave them hope that things could only get better. This Chapel is a symbol of what can be achieved in adversity. ..read more

This book updates all other previous research on the Shroud. Ian wilson has written an extraodinary account
tracing the Shroud from where it was laid in the tomb until the present day.

Although there are many factors relating to archaeology,the historical side of it, and the religious angle, the reader never feels over awed with facts.