Book review blog site, with some entertainment material from time-to-time.
Sunday 11 December 2016
That's Christmas: The Primacy of Your Eye
That's Christmas: The Primacy of Your Eye: The Primacy of Your Eye is a fascinating book by author, artist and qualified art historian Allan W. Beckett. It is a handbook that belo...
That's Christmas: The Rhyming Diary of Jason Smith
That's Christmas: The Rhyming Diary of Jason Smith: If you have a teacher or a child to buy a Christmas present for, then you really should get a copy of veteran schoolteacher Trevor Cattell...
Snake Ring at Risk & Other Stories
The stories are aimed at children and contain good, positive moral underpinnings, but children of ages 9 to 99 (and beyond) will find these stories equally enchanting.
You will reads about the Witch that wasn't, the not stupid at all boy who should not have been called Pie, a kitten who was full of mischief, the mystery of what the old lady in black was really singing and that's all in the first story!
There's the exciting new game that Sammy invented for himself, which resulted in him working to free a planet from an influx of giant snails, but it was only a dream. Or was it?
There are stories of revenge that was misplaced and erroneous, and also what happened when the Snake Ring was at risk.
The book costs £7.99 and is an essential read for everyone.
It is published in January and you can pre-order your copy here at our book and gift shop >>> https://goo.gl/m5aVoo.
Mr Churchill's Driver A Murderer's Story
It is written by Colin Farrington and is a stunner of a debut novel.
The book is intriguingly described as being based on "real events" and "events that may be real."
It is July 1940 and Britain stands alone against the dark and brooding menace and threat that was Nazi Germany.
What if, the book posits, Britain's Premier, Winston Churchill, had met with the Irish leader Eamon de Valera?
What if Winston Churchill had agreed with de Valera to unify Ireland in return for the entry of the Republic of Ireland into the war?
Is it possible that they might have even discussed terms from Germany to bring an end to the war?
The novel is largely the memoir of William Gilbey. It commences with the story which had been told to him by Bert, his father.
Bert, it transpired, had been a driver for Winston Churchill. He claimed that he had driven the Wartime Premier to the Welsh port town of Holyhead for a clandestine meeting with the Irish
Taoiseach, Eamon de Valera.
William's own story is a little complicated because as the novel commences he has just been released from prison after serving 12 years for murder.
It is his intention to find out the truth about the life of his father who was also found guilty of murder, but who was executed for his crime and was notorious as being the last man to be hanged in Britain in 1964.
He also plans to go straight, but not before retrieving stashes of jewelry and cash secreted by his gang.
But his efforts are not going unobserved. He has raised the interests of three groups, the British Secret Service, his own former gang members and Irish Nationalists.
They believe that his father may have informed him of the existence of documents relating to secret peace negotiations and there's the other matter of antiques and money smuggled from Northern Ireland to England during the war years.
This book is published by Matador at £8.99 and will be available for pre-ordering here >>> https://goo.gl/m5aVoo.
That's Christmas: Chasing Cloud
That's Christmas: Chasing Cloud: If you have to buy a Christmas present for a lover of historical fiction, here's a book that will fit that bill perfectly. Chasing C...
That's Books and Entertainment: All About Cruising
That's Books and Entertainment: All About Cruising: All About Cruising is a new and highly amusing look at cruiseships and those who cruise around the world on them. It is a mixture of car...
That's Christmas: The Key to the Half Worlds
That's Christmas: The Key to the Half Worlds: Andrew Chaplin's debut children's novel, The Key to the Half Worlds, is published by The Book Guild at £8.99. It tells the excit...
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