Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Like the heroine of the novel she adores, Jane Steele suffers cruelly at the hands of her aunt and schoolmaster. And like Jane Eyre, they call her wicked – but in her case, she…
Review: ‘The Woman in Black’ by Susan Hill
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Synopsis Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral Mrs Alice Drablow, the…
Thoughts on ‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker
When it was released in 1897, Dracula was praised as “the sensation of the season” and “the most blood-curdling novel of the paralysed century”. 114 years later and Count Dracula continues to haunt modern readers both in Stoker’s original words…
Thoughts on ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde
Ordinarily, when I finish a book, I post in my usual ‘review’ format. But how do you review a book that is not only extremely well known but extremely popular? I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you that…
Review: ‘The Winter Ghosts’ by Kate Mosse
Date finished: 17 February 2011 Rating: 3.5 stars Format: Paperback Source: Bought (December 2010, I think) Genre: Ghost story/historical fiction Published: 1 October 2009 The Synopsis The Great War took much more than lives. It robbed a generation of friends,…
Review: ‘The Angel’s Game’ by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
What the blurb said: “In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man – David Martin – makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge…