A tale of three cities

I came upon Agatha Raisin a while ago, when I needed some comfort reading.  So, when I was half-way through a difficult book for my bookcl...

I picked up this book after reading a review by Margaret at  BooksPlease , hailing it as an easy-going, holiday-appropriate piece of lit...

I started reading P.D. James fairly recently, when a colleague de-cluttered her house and gave me a box full of books, including several...

I'm always amazed at how some of the themes currently at the height of interest were also touched upon by classic books. Case in que...

Coming back from London on a Saturday evening, the world quietens down on board the Eurostar train.  People close their eyes, contemplate...

After a first disappointment with the James Bond novels, I knew I had to give this franchise another try.  A friend gave me Casino Ro...

When one is under a sick spell, one should stick to simple, short and entertaining stories:  when I found myself recently under a heavy ...

John Buchan is a well-known Scottish author who wrote The Thirty-nine Steps while recuperating from an illness.  The title of the boo...

Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber is simply a great read:  the compelling adventures of an independent woman, out to earn the respect s...

Having read The Great Gatsby and fallen in love with Fitzgerlad's story-telling, I couldn't help but wonder whether this was a ...

After having watched almost all of the Bond movies, I should at some point read the respective books, wouldn't you think?  I was a...

This being my mother's favourite book, I've heard about To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee ever since I was a child. So, when I ...

I wanted to read The Home-maker by Dorothy Canfield ever since I read a review by Claire .  I've often wondered how "lucky...

When I first read The Quiet American by Graham Greene, I was a teenager.  I studied the book for the Proficiency Diploma in English as ...

When I first heard about Murder runs in the family by Anne George, I could well imagine the background:  somewhere in the South, a coup...

I first read 1984 by George Orwell in 1984, and, while the whole story was depressing and scary, it was evident that it was a work of ...

( photo credit ) I was recently going through a phase where there was too much of everything... So, when Katrina reviewed an Agatha Ra...

Today marks Bloomsday - a whole day devoted to celebrating James Joyce's life through his novel Ulysses (set on 16 June 1904).  It...

The Hound of the Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle must be one of the few books that I read AFTER having watched various visual interpreta...

If I wanted to be super-cynical, I could summarise reading Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton as follows:  Ethan is an unlucky man, misses out...