The Seal Wife – Kathryn Harrison Fourth Estate Fiction Kathryn Harrison’s latest novel is set in Anchorage, Alaska. The year is 1915. Bigelow, product of an emotionally starved upbringing, has been ordered by the Weather Bureau for whom he works, to open up for them in Alaska. He must set up a weather forecasting station in the […]
This collection of short stories by Ha Jin is set amongst the ordinary people of China and against the after effects of the circumstance of communism. Ha Jin offers us characters such as Mr Chiu in The Saboteur and Shaona, the six year old main character from In The Kindergarten who find ways to extract cunning retribution for injustice […]
Mercy Among the Children David Adams Richards Jonathon Cape – Random House That’s the way books work isn’t it? By working the emotions. We are obliged with books to create our own images, and these are always produced with some sort of feeling, an emotion. Mercy Among the Children is a book that thoroughly engages your emotions, […]
In Search of Simplicity – A True Story that Changes Lives – By John Haines Review This veritable tome takes us on a very personal journey around the world for five years and also into the heart and soul of the author, John Haines. If you have never visited the back of Papua New Guinea […]
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