0052 | The Devil & Miss Prym ~ Paulo Coelho
REVIEW Now I liked this, I really did. Wasn’t expecting to because I’d hated Veronika Decides to Die. But this was different.
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0051 | High Fidelity ~ Nick Hornby
REVIEW Ironically, this book could have been entitled About a Boy because it is in fact about a boy. In fact, it’s about all boys and what makes them tick.
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0050 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ~ Mark Haddon
REVIEW Well this book has received more acclaim than most over the last few years so I was curious (ha ha) to see what it was like when a friend…
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0049 | England Made Me ~ Graham Greene
REVIEW Not one of Greene’s best but certainly a novel that plots his development as a novelist on his way to his later greats.
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0048 | Cloudsplitter ~ Russell Banks
REVIEW This is a huge book at just over 750 pages. But, while it is an interesting insight into life and events running up to the start of the American…
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0047 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ~ John Le Carre
REVIEW Not read an overt spy novel before. Never read any Carre either. Not sure I’ll read either anytime soon…
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0046 | The Time Machine ~ H.G. Wells
An audio book from www.inaudio.biz and read by Ralph Cosham. REVIEW Another product of its time. I found this better written than the couple of Verne’s books I’ve read.
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0045 | The Castle of Otranto ~ Horace Walpole
If you enjoyed this book, you’re going to love the map. REVIEW What a romp… but what a tragedy.
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0044 | Never Let Me Go ~ Kazuo Ishiguro
If you enjoyed this book, you’re going to love the map. REVIEW Ishiguro picks you up and sets you down in the English summer idyll of tranquil boarding school life….
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0043 | Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
If you enjoyed this book, you’re going to love the map. REVIEW This is a profoundly moving book made all the more poignant for the era in which it was…
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0042 | After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
If you enjoyed this book, you’re going to love the map. REVIEW More from Murakami. To be honest, if this hadn’t been 100 or so pages long, I wouldn’t have…
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0039 | The Book of Laughter & Forgetting – Milan Kundera
If you enjoyed this book, you’re going to love the map. REVIEW Erm… if anyone can enlighten me on what it is I’ve just read, I’d be more than grateful….
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0038 | The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
If you enjoyed this book, you’re going to love the map. REVIEW I’ve not read a book with a more apt title for a while. This is a book about…
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0037 | Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen
If you enjoyed this book, you’re going to love the map. REVIEW Been meaning to read this for years and years. I could hardly claim to be a book lover…
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0036 | Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you enjoyed this book, you’re going to love the map. REVIEW It took two attempts but I’ve finally finished this classic. The first time, I gave up after the…
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0034 | The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
If you enjoyed this book, you’re going to love the map. REVIEW Remeniscent of Steinbeck and Kerouac, Auster has captured something of the remnant of the beat generation in this…
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0033 | Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
If you enjoyed this book, you’re going to love the map. REVIEW From page 1 until I ran headlong into the back cover, this was one of the most engaging…
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0032 | Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Read in 51 daily installments from dailylit.com REVIEW: Narrated in the first person by a socially disfunctional philosopher, this is a rollercoaster ride on the rails of insecurity. Plagued by…