Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism

Posted 12:18am Monday 26th July 2010

Author: Jim Stanford Publisher: Pluto Press 4/5 Let’s be honest: reading about economics is not really my idea of a leisurely Sunday afternoon activity. However, in an attempt to expand my horizons, I picked up Economics for Everyone: a Short Guide to the Economics of Read more...

Bait

Posted 9:03pm Sunday 11th July 2010

Author: Nick Brownlee Publisher: Piatkus (5/5) From the opening chapter of Bait, I knew that it was definitely a guy’s kind of book. There’s nothing like a gruesome killing and a colossal explosion to raise testosterone levels, and Nick Brownlee sure sets the pace in this, Read more...

Up in the Air.

Posted 3:47pm Sunday 11th July 2010

Author: Walter Kirn Publisher: John Murray Rating: 3/5 Up in the Air. Now a major motion picture. What a great way to get someone to read your book. From the trailers, I envisaged the book would be about some hot-shot sweet talker whose entire job consisted of travelling the vastness of Read more...

The Wives of Henry Oades.

Posted 3:46pm Sunday 11th July 2010

Author: Johanna Moran Publisher: Harper Press (5/5) The Wives of Henry Oades is Johanna Moran’s debut novel, and not a bad one to kick off a writing career either. Set in the 1890s, it follows the tale of Henry Oades as he uproots his family from England to Wellington, New Read more...

Strangers in Death - J. D. Robb

Posted 2:15am Monday 10th May 2010

Publisher: Piatkus (5/5)   Strangers in Death is the first book in a long time that has hooked me into reading it nonstop, compelling me to avoid other tasks just to satisfy my curiosity. I was intrigued to read my first futuristic crime novel (being an avid Poirot fan) and I was not Read more...