Advantages: Enjoyable nonsense Disadvantages: These books are terribly dated
The James Bond Collection contains the fourteen books written by bounder, seducer and caddish bon vivant Ian Fleming between 1953 and 1966. You get spiffy new retro covers and a big sturdy Bond Girl embossed cardboard box to store them. Born in London o ...
Advantages: Action-packed, unique story Disadvantages: No sympathy for the characters
*JACKDAWS*
*THE AUTHOR*
Born in 1949 in Cardiff Ken Follett first trained as a reporter with the South Wales Echo, then slowly moved onto the London Evening News. Whilst in this job he began to write novels ...
Advantages: A stunning wartime tale of women parachuting into France to help the invasion force Disadvantages: None - it is a brilliant book
I bought this book on impulse because I have enjoyed several of Folletts other books, but I have to say this is the best book I have read for a very long time.
The story
The story revolves around one central character, Flick Chairet . an Englighwoma ...
Advantages: Absolutely fascinating, made the characters so real Disadvantages: Expensive as all books are, not a new story but the girls bit is new
This book starts off a bit slow in pace but it picks up the pace, going from the sleepy summer day in France to an all out Resistance attack on a Chateau occupied by the Germans, in particular the Gestapo. Obviously you can tell that this book is set in W ...
...For Grace Lawson, suburban housewife and part-time artist, the day began just like any other day: the morning school run followed by the usual list of domestic chores and errands. What Grace wasn't to know, as she drove to pick up a set of family photogra ...
