![Deep Water](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1385514890l/18987994._SX98_.jpg)
Friday 26 April 2019
A toxic relationship
![Deep Water](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1385514890l/18987994._SX98_.jpg)
Tuesday 16 April 2019
A very satisfying ending
![The Devotion of Suspect X](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1349169799l/16060443._SX98_.jpg)
Saturday 6 April 2019
An elegant death
![The Sweet Dove Died (Bello)](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1387272124l/19523620._SX98_.jpg)
After successfully bidding for a Victorian book of flowers, Leonora becomes light-headed and is helped out of the auction room by Humphrey Boyce and his nephew James, antique dealers. The two men become rivals for the affection of Leonora, who clearly prefers James, but the friendship develops only because the young man is willing to play along with the woman's need to be assured of her elegance and dignity.
Tuesday 26 March 2019
Some things you've got to stop thinking about
![A Kind of Intimacy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1266848055l/4631297._SX98_.jpg)
Sunday 17 March 2019
The law does not always punish the guilty
![Anatomy of a Scandal](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1506239626l/36294445._SX98_.jpg)
Tuesday 12 March 2019
A pair of star-crossed lovers
![Brighton Rock](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1387741884l/940019._SX98_.jpg)
The story opens with Hale the journalist who's visiting the English seaside town of Brighton on a bank holiday weekend. In the guise of Kolley Kibber he surreptitiously places cards in public places, which entitle the finder to ten shillings (about 25 GBP today). His mind is not on his job 'tho, because he knows the local mob will murder him before the day is out.
Thursday 7 March 2019
Power and powerlessness
![The God of Small Things](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1453489733l/21110696._SX98_.jpg)
Arundhati Roy has said that the theme of much of what she writes is "the relationship between power and powerlessness and the endless, circular conflict they're engaged in." In The God of Small Things, there are characters who attempt to escape their 'powerlessness', and those who scheme to maintain, at all costs, their superior position.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Labels
art
(2)
Art & music & misc reviews
(11)
Book reviews
(201)
bookclub
(40)
books
(2)
christmas
(2)
concerts
(2)
creative-writing
(11)
essays
(3)
events
(1)
exhibitions
(3)
fiction
(156)
France
(1)
humour
(1)
Italy
(2)
Japan
(2)
journeys
(9)
limericks
(6)
music
(7)
musings
(3)
My stories
(3)
My verse & poetry
(15)
non-fiction
(38)
photography
(1)
poetry
(4)
restaurants
(2)
Riviera
(1)
Russia
(1)
short-stories
(3)
South Africa
(1)
Sweden
(1)