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Book Review | Love in the Present Tense – Catherine Ryan Hyde

Love in the Present Tense – Buy this book Rating 3 stars – Enjoyable read – but slightly forgettable Description For five years Pearl has managed to keep the past from catching up to her and her bright, frail five-year-old son. Life has given her every reason to mistrust people, but circumstances force her to [...]

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Book Review | The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Book Thief – Buy this book Rating 5 stars – outstanding – a truly beautiful tale Description 1939 – Nazi Germany – The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a [...]

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Book Review | On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan

From these new heights they could see clearly, but they could not describe to each other certain contradictory feelings: they separately worried about the moment, sometime soon after dinner, when their new maturity would be tested, when they would lie down together on the four-poster bed and reveal themselves fully to each other.

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Book Review | The Shakespeare Secret – J L Carrell

A modern serial killer – hunting an ancient secret. A woman is left to die as the rebuilt Globe theatre burns. Another woman is drowned like Ophelia, skirts swirling in the water. A professor has his throat slashed open on the steps of Washington’s Capitol building. A deadly serial killer is on the loose, modelling his murders on Shakespeare’s plays. But why is he killing? And how can he be stopped? A gripping, shocking page turner, The Shakespeare Secret masterfully combines modern murder and startling true revelations from the life of Shakespeare. It has been acclaimed as one of the most compulsively readable thrillers of recent years.

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Book Review | Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

Meyer does not disappoint in the final part of the Cullen trilogy – the love triangle continues as Bella fights to combine her obsessive love for Edward with her friendship with her soul-mate Jacob

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