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At Close Quarters by Gerald Seymour. Adventure/Thriller 9/10
Books By bookworm on 7/31/2007 8:14 AM
Gerald Seymour’s At Close Quarters [ISBN 0 552 15397 4] is as tight and exciting as usual. The plot – this time around Palestinian terrorism – feels authentic and authoritative and is intricate and widely ranging,, and the well-written narrative just zooms along. As well as this his characters are complex and believable and you worry what will happen to them.
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The Inheritance of Loss by Hiran Desai. Man Booker Prize winner 2006. 6/10
Books By bookworm on 7/27/2007 8:16 AM
The Inheritance of Loss by Hiran Desai [978 0 141 02728 9] is typical of the Literary Prize winners of this time – novel set in exotic foreign parts, written in English by a foreign-born writer, highlighting differences, focussing on the psychology of characters and wordy and well written. Hiran Desai’s book is a series of psychologically intense, detailed scenes in and out of time sequence, chipping away at a broad narrative of the lives of her four or five characters, at its best and most alive when set in New York. I found it quite ponderous in places
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Instruments of Darkness by Robert Wilson. African crime fiction 9/10
Books By bookworm on 7/26/2007 12:25 PM
Instruments of Darkness a crime fiction book set in Benin, West Africa [ISBN 1 84561 464 X] is the first novel by Robert Wilson I have read, and excellent it is, too. The African context makes it an unusual and interesting read, but Robert Wilson’s cracking narrative laced with subtle humour brings the whole louche and corrupt world alive. Plot is good enough to be unguessable, and the characters creatures of the context, are well drawn. Classy writing.
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The Cold Moon by Jeffery Deaver. American Crime fiction 8/10
Books By bookworm on 7/25/2007 10:13 AM
Jeffery Deaver’s crime fiction novel The Cold Moon [ISBN 978 0 340 83383 4] is the latest in the Lincoln Rhyme series, and is, as usual, a good read. The plot has so many red herrings and twists and turns that just as soon as you feel that you are getting somewhere you find out you’re not. The split narrative tells the goodies and baddies stories, but, as usual, the baddies story doesn’t reveal very much at all. Its quite an addictive read and nicely put together, though Rhyme is just too clever for his own good – like Sherlock Home with his monographs on cigar ash.
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Ice Station by Matthew Reilly. Boys own adventure story 5/10
Books By bookworm on 7/24/2007 2:11 PM
Though Ice Station by Matthew Reilly [ISBN 978 0 330 45231 1] is pretty crummy, the strangeness of the plot and very weird narrative had a sort of mesmeric effect – and indeed, it keeps the reader guessing as to how all the strange mess is going to be resolved. (One suspects that not many will be alive to cause problems – and there might not be much of Antartica left either). It is quite risible but not bad escapist reading if you are fed up of the heavy stuff.
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Split Second by David Baldacci. American spy/adventure fiction 7/10
Books By bookworm on 7/20/2007 8:40 AM
I had a feeling of déjà vu reading Split Second by David Baldacci [ISBN 978 0 330 45226 7] because I have certainly read it before, though I didn’t remember the ending and its good enough for a second read. The plot is quite dense enough to keep the reader guessing, and the action busy enough – though the characters, like most books of this genre, are not the roundest of people.
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Winter in Madrid by C. J Sansom. Literary fiction 9/10
Books By bookworm on 7/19/2007 8:13 AM
C. J. Sansom’s literary fiction novel Winter in Madrid [ISBN 978 0 350 41198 1] is set in Madrid in 1940. After the Spanish Civil War Madrid is in a poor state, and Franco debates whether to enter the war. It is a very uncertain time, which is well portrayed in this book. The main characters are three men who had been at public school together as children, but are not quite friends. They are in very different roles in Spain and the story winds around the three of them and the politics of the time.
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Home Run by Gerald Seymour. Adventure/Spy 8/10
Books By bookworm on 7/18/2007 8:09 AM
Gerald Seymour’s spy thriller Home Run [ISBN 0 552 15395 8] is an action-packed adventure story, which amazingly almost avoids the naiveté of most boys own adventure stories and has a reasonable plot and a fast paced narrative – its a good story even though the characters are a little thinly drawn, but even so they manage to be quite rounded – the goodies are not all good and the baddies have good points – and one or two the reader has a problem of deciding which they are at all.
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Cold Granite by Stuart Macbride. Crime fiction 10/10
Books By bookworm on 7/17/2007 8:52 AM
I would compare Stuart Macbride’s crime fiction novel Cold Granite [ISBN 978 0 00 719314 1] to Ian Rankin, but that would be a major disservice to Macbride. As a first novel it is brilliant, set in Aberdeen and so very atmospheric, though no one is going to go there in winter after reading this book. Wonderfully crafted characters–the content is gruesome but the dialogue funny and revealing, the plot is clever and sneaky, and the narrative tight and addictive and the characters. Prepare to want to read it at one session.
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A Faint Cold Fear by Karin Slaughter. American crime fiction 9/10
Books By bookworm on 7/12/2007 8:09 AM
Karin Slaughter’s crime fiction novel A Faint Cold Fear [ISBN 0 09 944532 8] is so very well written that my quibbles about modern American crime fiction (hackneyed serial murder plots, over-gruesome details, unpleasant inept psychologically-flawed lead characters) are suspended even though the criticisms do apply – funny how really good writing grips and compels the reader in spite of unsettling content. The plot is complex but very well conceived, the narrative reveals clues and interest as it bowls along, and the characters
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The Missing by Chris Mooney. American Crime fiction 7/10
Books By bookworm on 7/11/2007 8:07 AM
Chris Mooney’s Crime fiction novel The Missing [ISBN 978 0 141 03085 2] reads like a formulaic crime fiction best seller – intricate plot, swiftly moving narrative and a CSI technician heroine with an iffy past. However, the plot is so convoluted I often lost it; the swiftly moving narrative reveals very little until the end and the heroine is one of those new breed that misses more than she spots – and she is so mixed up in the plot it is annoying not to know what she knows from the past. Come back Agatha Christie all is forgiven.
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The Watchman by Chris Ryan. Adventure fiction 9/10
Books By bookworm on 7/10/2007 3:36 PM
I have become a recent convert to Chris Ryan, and you know what they say about the zeal of a convert ! Chris Ryans book The Watchman [0 09 191105 2] is in my most unfavourite genres – the boy’s own adventure story (though perhaps just for grown up boys) but he really knows how to write a thriller to keep you on edge and reading.
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The Last Empress by Anchee Min. Historical fiction based on historical fact 8/10
Books By bookworm on 7/9/2007 8:54 AM
Anchee Min’s literary/historical fiction book The Last Empress[ISBN 978 0 7475 7850 5] is a sequel to her bestselling Empress Orchid, and takes us into the world of late 19th and early 20th century China and explains so much about why the country eventually became communist after so many centuries of stifling rigid control by rulers who lived in extreme pomp and luxury and who became increasingly cut off from the real world, and lived in a maelstrom of political intrigue and infighting.
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The Death of Dalziel by Reginald Hill. Crime fiction 10/10
Books By bookworm on 7/6/2007 8:46 AM
Reginald Hill’s latest in the Dalziel and Pascoe series, The Death of Dalziel [ISBN 978 0 00 719484 1] is the best book I’ve read for some time. I’ve not always liked the Dalziel and Pascoe books and the TV series seems to bear little resemblance in action and chronology to the books anyway, but this one is a brilliant read. I even read it all the way through without skipping a passage or two. The plot is well thought out, topical but with a different kind of slant, and the narrative with three different stories keep the reader interested all the way through
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Shallow Graves by Jeffery Deaver. American Crime fiction 8/10
Books By bookworm on 7/5/2007 1:44 PM
Shallow Graves [ISBN 0 340 81876 x] is quite an early Jeffery Deaver and very good it is too. The setting – a small town in upstate New York counts as exotic background (what can be stranger than small town America ?) – and the plot is just wonderfully layered-the reader has to wonder what strange reason is behind the increasingly bizarre happenings. The narrative does drag a little at times when chapter by chapter the reader is still as fogged (and mystery readers love getting clues) but altogether the story is true to the plot
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Relentless by Simon Kernick. Crime fiction 7/10
Books By bookworm on 7/3/2007 10:19 AM
Simon Kernick’s Crime fiction book Relentless [ISBN 978 0 552 15312 6] is high-powered writing. The plot is obviously very complex (any book that starts off with the hero completely without a clue about horrendous happenings is always that, though not always believable which this is, well nearly). The narrative is set off into top gear at the outset and just keeps on going (as the title). You do begin to wonder how gormless a husband can be about what his wife may be doing, and as such the lead character is certainly not the sharpest knife in the drawer
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A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve. Literary fiction 7/10
Books By bookworm on 7/1/2007 12:40 PM
Anita Shreve’s literary fiction book, A Wedding in December [ISBN 0 349 11799 3] is beautifully written, wise in its insights and gently revealing. In a way little happens in this story, but the relationships are cleverly explored and though the revelations from the past are not really lifeshaking in terms of the novel, they were seminal for the protagonists, or so the author paints the picture.
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A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George. Crime fiction 9/10
Books By bookworm on 6/29/2007 9:07 AM
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George [ISBN 0 340 83129 4] is the very first of George’s Inspector Lynley mysteries (written in 1989) and is really one of her best. The characters of Lynley and Barbara Havers is much rougher than the television personas have smoothed – Haver’s working class edge is the same but Lynley is this upper class fop painted in two dimensions. However, saying that, the plot is seriously clever
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Perfect Match by Jodi Piccoult. Literary Fiction 6/10
Books By bookworm on 6/28/2007 3:49 PM
This novel, Perfect Match [ISBN 0 340 89722 8] is written to the usual Jodi Piccolt formula – common life tragedy padded in a long-winded narrative heavy on the psychology, but with a contrived feel. The plot of this one is simple but the underlying premise – if you’re a mother you can get away with anything even when you’re wrong – is the type of Piccoult sophistry we are by now used to.
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The Land of the Living by Nicci French. Crime fiction 9/10
Books By bookworm on 6/27/2007 8:48 AM
I have reviewed a number of books by Nicci French (do a search on the blog to find them) and this book, The Land of the Living [ISBN 0 141 00650 1 ], though I have read it before some time ago, is just as good on its re-read. The plot is excellent, tight and unguessable but beautifully planned and an unexpected ending. The narrative is grippingly suspenseful, and very believable
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The King of Lies by John Hart. American murder mystery 4/10
Books By bookworm on 6/26/2007 10:32 AM
John Hart’s novel The King of Lies [ISBN 13 978 0 312 36375 a] illustrates one of my increasing fears – that the American crime fiction novel is diverging further as its own genre and becoming more difficult to read, more introspective and self-regarding, more full of unresolved angst. This novel’s plot is pretty run of the mill – everything that is going to happen is signalled from the outset due to a particularly awful lead character
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The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory. Historical fiction 8/10
Books By bookworm on 6/25/2007 11:24 AM
Phillipa Gregory’s historical novel The Boleyn Inheritance [ISBN 978 0 00 719033 1] is one of a series written about the Tudor period generally and the Boleyns in particular. Not only are these books very readable, but also they are meticulously faithful to historical background – everything that happens in the book, could have well happened. What she does is to put flesh onto historical fact – embroider dialogue from known behaviours, and uses the mechanism of changing first person accounts, which works very well as a way of giving different viewpoints, and elucidating what is happening
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Stripped by Brian Freeman. American Crime Fiction 10/10
Books By bookworm on 6/23/2007 8:55 AM
Brian Freeman’s crime fiction novel Stripped [ISBN 978 0 7553 2537 5 ] is a terrific read, and an example of a master storyteller, that can keep you engaged and wondering all the way through. Its one of his series where Jonathon Stride and Serena Dial are detectives, and though they are only mediocre characters when compared with other detective series, and, indeed, their relationship has so much angst it appears contrived, this doesn’t affect the quality of the plot or narrative, even with the dodgy gay and transsexuals just sneaked in there.
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The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh. Historical Fiction 8/10
Books By bookworm on 6/22/2007 10:56 AM
Amitav Ghosh’s historical novel The Glass Palace [ISBN 0 00 651409 X] is an epic story of three generations of a family moving from Burma, Malaya and India at a time in the 20th century before the partition of India. An Indian, writing in English Amitav Ghosh’s brings new historical and human insights into the stories of the period though sometimes I felt the canvas was both too small and too large at the same time. Though the characters are drawn in detail with sympathy and understanding, the background historical and geographical information at times fades so much into the background its difficult to put the happenings into the context of historical happenings
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White Mughuls by William Dalrymple. Historical non-fiction 8/10
Books By bookworm on 6/21/2007 9:41 AM
William Dalrymple’s impressively researched historical non-fiction book, White Mughuls [ISBN 0 00 655096 7] was winner of the 2003 Wolfson History Prize, and this is not surprising. The account of the British in 18th century India blows away many of the accepted views of that time by using contemporary letters and papers used as sources for the first time
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Lifeless by Mark Billingham. Crime fiction 7/10
Books By bookworm on 6/20/2007 1:01 PM
Mark Billingham’s crime fiction novel Lifeless [ISBN 0 7515 3616 4] I found a very heavy read. Its not that its boring, it just moves so slowly its hard to persist for long periods as the action is dripped out in very small globs. The plot is quite opaque at the outset even though you are led to believe its straightforward, it clearly isn’t. The narrative is full of detail but not a lot of it actually adds to moving the plot forwards
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A Fancy to Kill For by Hilary Bonner. Crime fiction 7/10
Books By bookworm on 6/19/2007 3:16 PM
Hilary Bonner’s novel A Fancy to Kill For [ISBN 0 09 943586 1] is a nice, lively quick murder mystery interspersed with titillating details of more intimate happenings (I can’t call them relationships). A straightforward plot and a narrative you know there must be a twist in – and indeed there is.
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The Drowning Man by Michael Robotham. Crime fiction 10/10
Books By bookworm on 6/18/2007 8:47 AM
I find that I have read The Drowning Man by Michael Robotham [ISBN 0 7515 3478 1] before, but it is just so very good and so very cleverly written that I hadn’t a chance of remembering all the ins and outs of the plot and I enjoyed reading it just as much the second time. The plot is twisty and well constructed, but the narrative devices (a lost memory and flashbacks) even though terrible in the hands of a poor writer, are so very clever in this book at holding suspense all the way through – a bonus is that the ending has an unexpected twist.
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Good Morning Midnight by Reginald Hill. Crime fiction 8/10
Books By bookworm on 6/15/2007 8:44 AM
Reginald Hill’s crime fiction novel Good Morning Midnight [CN 124203] features the pair of Dalziel and Pascoe, and is the best Reginald Hill novel of this type I have read – I gave up either watching the pair on television, or even trying to read the novels because I find the character of Dalziel so repellent (but I have to say so cleverly manufactured, especially in this novel).
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Holy Fools by Joanne Harris. Historical/Literary fiction 9/10
Books By bookworm on 6/13/2007 8:23 AM
Joanne Harris’s novel Holy Fools [ISBN0 552 77001 9] is a brilliant read, though I haven’t joined the plaudits for all her novels, this is really addictive. The context of 17th century France may or may not be authentic, but it feels almost so, and the details of life in a convent make a fascinating narrative. Joanne Harris really knows how to tell a rich story.
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Flinch by Robert Ferrigno. American Crime fiction 7/10
Books By bookworm on 6/11/2007 7:03 AM
This crime fiction novel, Flinch by Robert Ferrigno [ISBN 1 84561 464 X] is a well-written, edgy story, with a fair plot and a narrative that keeps you interested. Characterisations are fine, and though quickly-drawn they nonetheless do the job, even though the psycho sticks out like a sore thumb (and indeed, is meant to).
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The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult. Literary Fiction 6/10
Books By bookworm on 6/9/2007 8:58 AM
I know Jodi Picoult is flavour of the month and darling of the book clubs, but this book, The Tenth Circle [ISBN 078 0 340 83552 4], feels as if its been churned out from a list of the most mawkish sentiments to press as many emotional buttons as possible, with less regard to quality of plot or narrative
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Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver. Literary Fiction 8/10
Books By bookworm on 6/7/2007 3:26 PM
Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Prodigal Summer [ISBN 0571 20648 4] is a triple narrative centred around significant times in the lives of six people. It is charged and erotic in places and conveys a strong sense of place but it is the characters that live with you after the book is finished. One of the new breed of novels that celebrates relationships between much older women and young men I notice that we haven’t yet reached the point where they are successful ! Plus ca change!
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Weaving Shadows by Margaret Murphy. Crime fiction/thriller 7/10
Books By bookworm on 6/5/2007 8:44 AM
Margaret Murphy’s crime fiction novel Weaving Shadows [ISBN 0 340 82055 1] is a pretty good read – the plot is fine and the narrative quite pacy – and with a very good ending (always a bonus). However, I have to rate it down because the main character is one of my pet dislikes – a character who has had bad experiences in a previous novel and who carries the angst into the next, so crippling her ability to do anything much at all. Not only is she an absolute pain to her family, but is unable to function at work – this allows many vagaries in the plot when clues are missed or deductions screaming
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Strange Fits of Passion by Anita Shreve. Literary Fiction 8/10
Books By bookworm on 6/4/2007 8:18 AM
Anita Shreve’s novel Strange Fits of Passion [ISBN 0 349 10586 3] is so very well written we have to forgive weaknesses in plot and storyline (alas we know what is going to happen from page one) and some slowness in the narrative (the skippers amongst us will be sorely tried in parts) because the book has some weight and feeling and draws you in.
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Until Justice is Done by Christine McGuire Court drama 8/10
Books By bookworm on 5/31/2007 2:29 PM
Christine McGuire’s Until Justice is Done [ISBN 0 7493 2040 0] is quite a slim book which is why I decided to take it away on an overnighter holiday, and a good choice it was. An excellent plot even though about a serial rapist which is becoming a little passé as everyone has this as a topic, but she manages to write a lively and readable book, even though the rock hard driven female attorney about to expire through stress can be annoying at times as she manages to be as clueless
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The Kremlin Device by Chris Ryan. Adventure/thriller 9/10
Books By bookworm on 5/30/2007 2:14 PM
As far as Chris Ryan is concerned I’m going to have to take back all my negative comments about Boys Own Adventures – because he writes them so very well. Chris Ryan’s The Kremlin Device [ISBN 0 09 191105 2] is well plotted, with a narrative expertly written for maximum suspense and action, and also with characters you know he knows well. From the opening chapter of his parachute drop right up to the sweaty end, it really paces along. His background is believably authentic –of course, especially the army stuff, and altogether is a good read.
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The Blood-Dimmed Tide by Rennie Airth, Crime/Police procedural 7/10
Books By bookworm on 5/29/2007 9:13 AM
Rennie Airth’s the Blood Dimmed Tide [ISBN 0 330-48472-9] is set in 1932, and has a pleasing, countryside context backing a quite chilling thriller, the plot is straightforward and the narrative nicely tucked in with the time and situation – no rushing about for the police in these times, and the characters believable
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The Precipice by Ben Bova. The Asteroid Wars:1 Science Fiction 5/10
Books By bookworm on 5/24/2007 8:16 AM
It appears that Ben Bova is one of the “masters” of Science Fiction given the plaudits of the jacket blurbs (though I note that some of the journals are obscure to say the least). This book The Precipice [ISBN 0 340 840090 0] – the first book of a series the Asteroid Wars, makes sure for me that there won’t be a second. The giants of early sci-fo, such as Asimov or Clarke, managed to be scientists AND writers. Ben Bova may well be a scientist, but I bet he never went to any classes for writing, and I wish he had.
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Atlantis by David Gibbins. Grail search type adventure 7/10
Books By bookworm on 5/23/2007 2:37 PM
David Gibbin’s adventure novel Atlantis [ISBN 0 7553 2422 6] is another of those irritatingly popular search-for-lost treasure-type books (no prizes in guessing what they’re looking for) with similar strengths and weaknesses to many of the others. The strengths are the inherent interest of the search – unravelling a deep long-term mystery, and lots of authentic historical background together with gung-ho action and baddies on the trail making considerable suspense. The weaknesses are
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Crow Lake by Mary Lawson. Literary fiction 8/10
Books By bookworm on 5/22/2007 8:25 AM
Mary Lawson’s literary fiction novel Crow Lake [Vintage books] is the archetypal Reading Club choice. Well written, a narrative with psychological depth, fascinating context [the wilds of Canada] and a readable story.
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Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky. Literary Fiction 9/10
Books By bookworm on 5/21/2007 11:58 AM
This is a quite amazing book – Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky [ISBN 978 0 099 48878 1] Irene Nemirovsky was a remarkable woman, a multilingual Russian Jew who was in France during its occupation and during this time she wrote the two sections of this book, before she was taken to Auschwitz where she died in 1942 – and this is one of the reasons this book is just so gripping. The book tells perceptively of the time when the Germans were about to move into Paris and there was a major outflow into the countryside –
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The Glory Boys by Gerald Seymour. Spy/terrorist thriller 8/10
Books By bookworm on 5/19/2007 1:22 PM
This boys own adventure stuff is not usually my kind of reading but The Glory Boys, spy/terrorist thriller by Gerald Seymour is very readable. It is realistically plotted, with a swift-moving narrative and though characterisations are not brilliant, Jimmy, the alcoholic crumpled secret service dial-an-assassin is very nicely portrayed.
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Promise me by Harlan Coben. Crime fiction/thriller 7/10
Books By bookworm on 5/17/2007 6:21 AM
Harlan Coben’s crime mystery fiction Promise me [ISBN 978 0 7528 7821 8] is superbly plotted –the mysterious disappearance of a girl starts the book and the step by step following her trail forms a suspenseful and readable book – with an excellent twist of an ending – which now we expect from this writer.
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Archangel by Paul Watkins. Literary fiction 8/10
Books By bookworm on 5/16/2007 9:04 AM
I loved the atmosphere of Paul Watkin’s novel Archangel [ISBN 0 571 17717 4] even though the images are bleak and primeval: the story is powerful and interesting, and the characters, though not written with depth, show psychological shrewdness in their personas. It is set in North Maine, close to the Canadian border, amongst the bleak Algonquin wilderness, and evokes in us that mysterious uncertainty that large untamed areas call from us.
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Secret Smile by Nicci French. Thriller 7/10
Books By bookworm on 5/15/2007 12:04 PM
Nicci French’s novel Secret smile [ISBN 0 718 14519 4] is well written, as usual, with a quite relentless narrative which builds and builds suspense. It isn’t, however, a pleasant read and I found myself wishing I could get to the end quicker. It’s a book that makes you squirm – the portrait of obsession is so good – but its also unpleasant and makes the reader feel (at least me) feel uncomfortable – because it is really so believable.
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The distance between us by Maggie O’Farrell. Award winning literary fiction 8/10
Books By bookworm on 5/14/2007 12:01 PM
Maggie O’Farrell’s The distance between us [ISBN 0 7553 0266 4] won the 2005 Somerset Maugham Award and you’ll see why when you read it. Its one of those beautifully written double narratives of two separate people’s stories that you know will come together before the end. It’s a travel and romance between two folks who haven’t met yet , complicated identities (the novel calls them the hyphenated people – Italian American, Hong Kong British) and sisterly bonds
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Duplicate Keys by Jane Smiley. Psychological mystery thriller 9/10
Books By bookworm on 5/12/2007 12:35 PM
If you haven’t read Duplicate Keys by Jane Smiley [ISBN 0 00 654747 8] then you should just go out and get hold of it. It has a brilliant plot at its core, but the way the narrative is woven in time – with skirtings into the past and just past to mine around a situation from different viewpoints – enables the reader to consider and re-consider evidence and reasons for actions
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Undercurrents by Frances Fyfield. Psychological mystery/thriller 9/10
Books By bookworm on 5/11/2007 12:05 PM
Frances Fyfield’s novel undercurrents [ISBN 0 7515 3028 X] is an excellent read; not only is the plot intriguing, and the characterisations so beautifully observed, but the faded seaside out of season atmosphere recalls sights and sounds and smells (not so very attractive in some cases) so very cleverly. You can almost feel the rain and cutting blustery wind each time the characters step out of doors. The story is compelling and addictive to read,
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Black Waltz by Patricia Melo. Literary fiction Brazilian author. 8/10
Books By bookworm on 5/10/2007 3:31 PM
Patricia Melo’s Black Waltz [ISBN 0 7475 7372 7] is a skilfully written account of a relationship fracturing with increasingly unreasonable jealously. The marriage cracks and then starts to disintegrate and this is so skilfully built in the narrative that the pressure is cranked up a little at a time, until the reader cannot imagine how the author will resolve the conflict
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