The President of the United States has nominated Neil Gorsuch for The Supreme Court yesterday (1st February 2017). It is known that the composition of The Supreme Court will have far reaching effects on public and private life across the nation. The law and justice affect everyone, so practitioners in this field have to be beyond reproach. […]
If you enjoyed The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, this psychological thriller by K.L. Slater (https://klslaterauthor.com/about/) will provide an entertaining read. The summary is as follows. Anna lives a solitary existence, taking solace in order and routine. Thirteen years previously someone had injured her very badly. Her only friend is the lonely old
Ross Armstrong (http://www.hamiltonhodell.co.uk/cv/client_ross-armstrong_id_100030.htm) is a British stage and screen actor who has performed in the West End of London, on Broadway and in theatres throughout the UK. He has acted in Hamlet, Cyrano de Bergerac, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Deep Blue Sea. His TV appearances include Foyle’s War, Jonathan Creek, Mr Selfridge, DCI Banks
Fancy a gripping suspense thriller you could read straight through on a cold afternoon? Turn to an author who is fast gaining a reputation for serving up the goods – Ruth Ware. Her latest title is The Woman in Cabin 10. The summary is as follows. Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine is
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Gerald Seymour has been entertaining us with adventure/crime/terrorism/military fiction in 32 novels since 1975. His latest is Jericho’s War. The summary is as follows. The occasion will demand nerve shredding courage that will affect many thousands of lives. A handful of men and women will converge on a barren stretch of Yemeni desert. Each of
This year sees the 20th anniversary of Tom Wolfe’s landmark novel The Bonfire of the Vanities of 1987. Seven years prior to its publication I had been shaken to be told by a biblical scholar that Ecclesiastes doesn’t belong in the Old Testament. It is evidently a Greek text, he proclaimed, and is not consistent
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Ann Patchett’s (http://www.annpatchett.com/about/) new novel is an American family saga involving six children, 50 years and many coincidences. It opens with Bert, a father of three with another baby on the way, sneaking a kiss from Beverly, a married woman hosting a christening party for her second child, Frances. They’re drunk and it’s the Sixties;
Subtitled ‘Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae’, His Bloody Project contains the memoir of a 17-year-old crofter, written while awaiting trial in Inverness in 1869 for three brutal murders, and ‘discovered’ by the author while researching his own Highland roots. This manuscript, we are informed, divided the Edinburgh literati of the time, who feared
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Stephen Leather (http://www.stephenleather.com/) has been entertaining us for nearly 20 years with his novels of crime, imprisonment, military service, and terrorism. He’s certainly tapped into the zeitgeist because our daily news is saturated with crime, war, terrorism, death and destruction. Every night brings further gory detail about the bloodbath in The Middle East. The appetite for
