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Advantages: Poignant Scottish poetry
Disadvantages: Too short?

Although some may be put off by the 'Scottish' reference in the title, if you have any love for poetry at all, give this little book a chance, and if you haven't been touched by any of the poems by the end of the book, ask for your money back. At only 64 pages, the book isn't uncommonly short for a poetry anthology, in fact more than this would probably have you in tears. Although the author is listed here as Lizzie MacGregor, there are many other ...
...Liz Lochhead. Lochhead makes several suggestions for use of the poetry, but it's clear right from the beginning that, Scots or not, this is a collection of poems for the celebration of love. There are poems from the well-known authors you'd expect in a volume of Scottish poetry (e.g. Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson) and also contemporary Scots poets - Sheena Blackhall's 'Haunfast' is particularly appropriate as the first poem in a book devoted ... Read review

Advantages: Funny
Disadvantages: None

I got given this book for xmas and have read everything from cover to cover several times.Its one of those books that he probably came up with to keep himself busy but turned into something alot more meaningful and popular than he expected.Most of the poems are long and have a sort of moral behind them.There are still short poems within the book and i think that younger children could still get into the book or at leats be read the book.If you have ... Read review

Advantages: Powerful, gripping
Disadvantages: not 100% historically accurate.

...Monroe) set in 1692 during the witch trials of Salem, Massachusetts. The play begins with Reverend Parris praying for his daughter, Betty, who is lying inert on a bed. The circumstances surrounding how Betty ends up in an unresponsive state becomes a major theme and discussing point of the play. However, Miller has other central themes and key ideas, for example, reputation and how it alters certain character's behaviour. To convey this, Miller uses ...
...be considered by readers of the play as John Proctor and Abigail Williams. John Proctor is married to Eilzabeth/Goody Proctor and yet, while she was ill for a period of time, had an affair with the manipulating temptress that is Abigail Williams. From the play (although it is not actually part of any of the four Acts) we deduct that Abigail, Betty and several other young girls of the village were dancing in the woods outside the village; it is believed ... Read review

Advantages: Amazing poetry, and a large selection of it
Disadvantages: He can't read poetry aloud...

...world. Boring Stuff Title: Lone Wolf Author: Felix Dennis Publisher: Hutchinson (7 Oct 2004) ISBN-13: 978-0091800352 Price: Amazon: from £0.62 at time of writing RRP: £8.99 Felix Dennis Felix Dennis is one of Britain's best known entrepreneurs, after leaving Harrow College of Art, Dennis wasted a great deal of his youth playing in R&B bands. In 1971he was imprisoned by the British government as a co-editor of OZ magazine at the ...
...recorded a single with John Lennon to raise money for a legal defence fund. Following his acquittal by the High Court of Appeal, Dennis went on to found his own magazine publishing company in 1973. Following a life-threatening illness, Dennis's first collection of poetry, A Glass Half Full, was published in November 2002 by Hutchinson in the UK. It has since become one of the biggest selling books of original verse in England for years. Dennis's ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent, engaging story
Disadvantages: Sometimes challenging, hard to understand if you haven't read Jane Eyre

...read previously and loved), and Wide Sargasso Sea. I felt uneasy about "add ons" to books. For one thing, it was not written by Charlotte Bronte, so I felt this was just ripping off her idea to make money. How wrong I was. Despite being billed as a prequel to Jane Eyre, I would read Bronte's novel first as otherwise the events and characters in WSS may seem irrelevant and confusing. This book costs £5.99 - £8.99 depending on edition. PLOT The novel ...
...Creole girl - meaning that she is born in the Caribbean but is white. The first part describes Antoinette childhood and pre-Rochester years. Her family has fallen from great wealth and power as slave owners into poverty due to the emancipation of slaves. Her mother, Annette, remarries Mr Mason (thus changing Antoinette's name) but sadly is driven to madness when her ill son dies and her house is burned down. In the second part, reader, she marries ... Read review