Monthly Archives: July, 2009
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Synopsis from Amazon: For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. Years later, [...]
Share on FacebookThe Chocolate Run by Dorothy Koomson
Synopsis from Amazon: Amber Salpone thinks in chocolate – talk to her for three minutes and she’ll tell you what kind of chocolate you’d be. In fact, most days, if she was asked to choose between chocolate and relationships, there’d be no contest. At least chocolate has never let her down. Unlike her family. Growing [...]
Share on FacebookThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Synopsis by Amazon: Everyone has a dark side. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly, he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will, he roams the streets of fog-bound London as his monstrous alter-ego. It seems [...]
Share on FacebookThe Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Synopsis from Amazon: When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great [...]
Share on FacebookMen at Arms by Terry Pratchett
Synopsis from Amazon: Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN! But what it’s got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detrius (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman…most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving). And they need all [...]
Share on FacebookSpeaking of Love by Angela Young
Synopsis from Beautiful Books: When human beings don’t talk about love, things go wrong. If a mother had told her daughter that she loved her, they might not have spent years apart. If a man had found the courage to tell a woman that he loved her she might never have married another man. And [...]
Share on FacebookHeavenly by Jennifer Laurens
Synopsis from FantasticFiction: I met someone who changed everything. Matthias. My autistic sister’s guardian angel. Honest. Inspiring. Funny. Hot. And immortal. That was the problem. What could I do? I did what any other girl would do-I fell in love with him. Zoë’s sister darts in front of cars. Her brother’s a pothead. Her parents [...]
Share on FacebookThe Last Good Man by Patience Swift
Synopsis from Beautiful Books: His solitude is broken by the discovery, one early morning on the flat sands of a low tide, of a child washed up on the beach. Somehow, she is still alive. In the village, a woman reflects on a lifelong fascination with an ancient love story as she faces an unknown [...]
Share on FacebookThe Ingenious Edgar Jones by Elizabeth Garner
Synopsis from Amazon: Set in nineteenth-century Oxford, and shot through with a powerful sense of magic, Elizabeth Garner’s new novel will appeal both to fans of historical fiction and to the huge Susanna Clarke/Philip Pullman fanbase. In nineteenth-century Oxford, an extraordinary child is born – Edgar Jones, a porter’s son with a magical talent. Though [...]
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