My rating: 5 of 5 stars Continuing on from enjoying the ‘Enchanted Forest Chronicles’ which began with ‘Dealing with Dragons‘, returning to the series thirteen years after first reading them to my young children, I was delighted to find that the second book was every bit as entertaining as the first. Wrede’s rather wonderful idea… Read More Book Review: Searching for Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
My rating: 5 of 5 stars A long-time lover of Global history, I’m very aware just how too much of what I’ve read has been written by white British historians (Peter Frankopan is just about the best of them). I recently started a run of reading non-white historians to get a much better balance of… Read More Book Review: Empireland – How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Ahhh, Terry Pratchett is one of my most beloved authors and I do love his Discworld books which, I must confess, I thought this was going to be. Having borrowed a selection of Pratchett books from a village friend, I had assumed they were all Discworld novels. I found… Read More Book Review: Dodger by Terry Pratchett
My rating: 5 of 5 stars I will confess a considerable bias in writing this review. Let me tell you a story… Once upon a time there was a young(ish) man who took his family off to a strange and bizarre land, where they settled – for a few months – in the home of… Read More Book Review: Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
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