Advantages: Light hearted, no serious brain thinker Disadvantages: Start to wonder about the morals of a gossip columnist
...Feeling under the weather, I found myself in bed, off work and feeling sorry for myself. I went into my housemate's room in the hope to find something to cheer me up and I did... in the shape of Wicked Whispers by Jessica Callan. I didn't know too much ...
Advantages: Rather sad story very well told Disadvantages: None
Most British titled families of the 19th and 20th centuries have produced their fair share of rebels. Yet few came as close to changing the course of European history as the Honourable Violet Gibson, one of eight children of Baron Ashbourne, a Protestant ...
Advantages: Informative and Readble. Disadvantages: It does go into depth.
Okay, at the time it was an Abbey but as I was taking the 'out of headlines' approach to titles it had to be that. If it had not been Richard's skeleton, it would have been, 'Henry VIII's Dad'. Which sums up the problem and opportunities for any writer o ...
Advantages: An honest and soul searching account of what this lady went through Disadvantages: Sometimes a bit uncomfortably personal
“With What Remains” by Leslie Bilinda I bought this book from Amazon prior to our holiday in Rwanda and Madagascar. All the books I managed to find set in Rwanda apart from, ’Baking Cakes in Kigali’ were centred around the Genocide in 1994. I wasn’t able ...
Advantages: You get to learn a lot more about Pattie and her marriages to George and Eric Disadvantages: There were some really uncomfortable moments in the book that felt exploitative
It has long been debated in my house as to which Beatle wife or girlfriend was the most attractive in her heyday. It might sound like a pretty shallow conversation and it results in the same comments; my Mum and Dad think either Paul McCartney’s first med ...
