Have you seen the movie The Thirty-Nine Steps? Or perhaps one of the many theatre productions? I’ve not been lucky enough to see it at the theatre (yet) but I do remember seeing the Alfred Hitchcock movie a while back. Let me tell you, the book is barely like the movie at all. The Thirty-Nine… Continue reading Book review: The Thirty-Nine Steps
Who doesn’t love a good mystery? I know I do, and yet somehow I’ve not actually read a great deal of Agatha Christie. I admit, not reading Agatha Christie when you enjoy mysteries basically borders on foolish, doesn’t it? This particularly gorgeous Folio Society edition of the Miss Marple short stories was too appealing to… Continue reading Book review: Miss Marple Short Stories
I am bad at watching TV. I’ve never seen an episode of Game of Thrones. I gave up halfway through season three of Breaking Bad. I’ve watched the first four episodes of The West Wing about five times and have never yet made it to the fifth episode. Binge watching makes me feel ill and… Continue reading Book review: Earth – The Power of the Planet
Although I’d quite enjoyed the film in 2005 I never quite got around to reading V for Vendetta. I don’t read very many graphic novels in general. Not for any particular reason, I just never seem to get around to them. However, when one of the book club group suggested V for Vendetta I was… Continue reading Book review: V for Vendetta
Does Amazon send you countless emails with offers on books? Do you look, just in case there’s something you actually want to read? Do you end up buying virtual stacks of them at £0.99 and £1.49 just because you can’t not own this text if that’s the price? I’m sure this is why half the… Continue reading Book review: Wolf Hall
This beautiful Folio Society Edition of P.G. Wodehouse’s Leave it to Psmith was a Christmas gift from P a few years back (he also got me a gorgeous old edition of Wordsworth poetry because he’s just that wonderful). I’ve never really read any Wodehouse before, although I’ve seen a few of the old Fry and Laurie… Continue reading Book review: Leave it to Psmith
My sister likes books but she doesn’t find as much time to read as I do, so I was surprised years ago when she picked up a copy of Cloud Atlas, apparently on a whim. I was less surprised when she brought it to me asking if I wanted it because she was never going… Continue reading Book review: Cloud Atlas
When I was a teenager, specifically, when I was 13 back in 2002 I had a tendency to fall through books. They became an obvious Christmas or birthday gift and that year my grandmother gave me Decipher by Stel Pavlou, reasoning that, given its length, it should keep me busy for a while. Somehow, in… Continue reading Book review: Decipher
The Immortals is yet another example of Amazon tempting me with their Kindle offers. Last year in November they made it available for £1.49 and I snapped it up and then forgot about it until I finished reading Eleanor & Park for my book club and was casting about for something new to read. In… Continue reading Book review: The Immortals
After a good deal of thought, and after checking everyone would be happy to read some young adult fiction, S from my book club chose this book. This is one of the reasons I love my book club so much, I so often seem to end up reading things I would never have otherwise come… Continue reading Book review: Eleanor & Park
In Becky's Head 