My rating: 4 of 5 stars Stig Abell is quite a fascinating chap and that comes across very much in this book. Almost a contemporary of mine (we both grew up in the Midlands around the same time, and he went to the same school in Loughborough as a friend of mine but six years… Read More Book Review: How Britain Really Works: Understanding the Ideas and Institutions of a Nation by Stig Abell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars As with my review of the first book in this series (‘My adopted life: A birth mothers story’), my copy of this book was given to me to review and I do so freely and without compulsion. Likewise, this was a book I specifically asked for after enjoying the… Read More Book review: My Adopted Life: The Adopted Mother’s Story by A.H.M. Beattie
My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’m unashamedly a Terry Pratchett fan and, bar his initial prototype discworld novel from long ago, have never found any of his books to be anything other than wonderful. ‘Witches Abroad’ is no exception. As Pratchett so often does, he starts with inverting an idea we all take for… Read More Book Review: Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
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