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Nearly halfway through the year again!
Time flies etc. To aid summer reading I've put ten books into the
club library this month with shorter
The first of four lady authors reviewed this month,
she really does write well. Not a story line which pops my cork
but certainly a book which many will enjoy. In the summer of
1899, the heroine of the story, who is a 15 year old girl entering womanhood,
is holidaying with her parents. Her father introduces a known essayist
and doctor to the family. He's married and has young children and
as old as her father.. There goes the storyline! Not bad and very
well written.
Still buried in the world of crime, grotty people
and gruesome action, Martina FIRST LADY by Michael Dobbs Dobbs writes about the politics of Westminster
brilliantly and creates some extraordinary characters, which many will
recognise. Of course they are fictional and any resemblance etc
is purely coincidental . he was of course one of Margaret Thatcher's senior
advisors! In this, the young wife of an opposition MP who finds
out about her husbands affair. Unusually, apart from the anger and sense of
betrayal, she deals with things somewhat differently. she's determined that
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THE HARD WAY by Lee Child The latest Jack Reacher novel moves from New York
through to the English countryside. Mile a minute action.
Good book.
When a criminal comes out of jail to find that his
son has been gunned down and that he was a cop, it starts off an interesting
hunt for the truth. Good touches.
Classed as the new Clive Cussler with his Alex Hawke
novels, this is a great story with fast paced action all the way.
chael Ledwidge Great new character, Detective Bennett and his10
children. Very human touches without the soppiness!
Starting with the death of America's First Lady, through the subsequent
taking of high profile hostages at the funeral and fonwards through the
action that follows, there's great storytelling!
Another Patterson but not as I knew it!
An adult book for youngsters. An experiment created children with
wings and some other odd 'skills'. They escape, the scientists
want them back etc etc. Interesting enough to make me want to
read more. MONDAY MOURNING by Kathy Reichs A Temperance Brennan story (TV's Bones) which is a
good story with plenty of twists.
Another Brennan story which maintains her high
writing standards as well as creating interest in a complicated subject.
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