Debut novel mainly located in Venice and London.
Roughly put, this is all about the relationship of a mother and son. Will he allow himself to be dominated by his mother or break free and give himself to his newlywed.
Read it and find out. The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee
Score 6.5/10
Date read August 2005
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A great English crime writer, writing an English crime novel that twists and turns like dodgems at the funfair at Brighton beach.
The idea of a stag night prank going wrong and turning into dastardly deeds kept me turning the pages over.
There was a time when I was losing interest but Peter James throws in some twist which saved it.
I grew to like the detective Grace and his sidekick. Easy reading.
Score 7/10
Date read August 2005
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It’s easy to see why this, the first of ‘misery memoirs’ sold millions of copies.
A short book about the horrible, shocking and sad events of Dave, an abused Californian kid.
Why any person would do this to another human is beyond me. But absorbing and enlightening.
Score 8/10
Date read August 2005
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I gather the author wrote this novel, his first, from stories he made up to tell his kids at bedtime.
He published it and sold the rights to Disney for a cool million, gave up work at the local super market and wrote a sequel.
The story goes that the magpies are killing off all the small bird species in Birddom.
Billed (excuse the pun) as the new Watership Down…nowhere near but fun anyway.
Score 6/10
Date read August 2005
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