Author Archives: vhk10

This must be the thinking person’s light summer reading for 2008. I took a copy on holiday and found another already there in the place we were staying! I was entertained by this and found the ending suddenly rather poignant, … Continue reading →

No spoiler! Read on as I won’t discuss the plot. I thought this was one of the better Wexford ones I’d read. My main reservation was that the characters of Joyce Virson and Augustine Casey – intended I think to … Continue reading →

A favourite of my 3 year old son. We have it in board and paperback versions, both published by Egmont. Note (especially if you once read this book as a child) that both are abridgements of the original, but the … Continue reading →

I still miss Bernard Levin’s articles; I wonder what he would have said about the Diana inquest, or the current US election campaign?  (Though the latter topic would be more his beloved Arianna’s territory).  I made do with reading ‘Conducted … Continue reading →

Chick-lit of a kind I wouldn’t usually read! I found the main character rather tiresome (though have children of similar ages so empathised a bit). I preferred the sub-plots involving Cressida and Freddie; but both wound up some time before … Continue reading →

I enjoyed this but not as much as the other contributors. It takes a while to get going, and I wish there had been more scenes set at the hotel and less of the earlier misery-memoir stuff from the farm. … Continue reading →

I’m now 3/4 of the way through. My husband tried to buy more volumes in France but for some reason it’s much easier to get v.1 than any of the others. I can’t think why … Trying to erase the … Continue reading →

I’d be happy to read more Banks on the basis of this one. I wondered whether the sci-fi setting was necessary for what Banks had to say, though. I can’t compare it to other sci-fi, but I noticed that the … Continue reading →

One of the most useful reference works for music that we have is a 1985 edition of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, edited by Michael Kennedy. This manages to pack a huge amount of information into a paperback of … Continue reading →