Well developed, larger-than-life characters interacting in somewhat ludicrous situations. The style – many very short chapters – makes it a racing read.
Rather different from most of McCall Smith’s well-known books.
This book is appropriately subtitled “The Road Where Childhoods are Stolen”. Movingly written, we are brought to love and agonise with little lilac-dressed Leilah, desperate-to-start-a-new-life Mariana and all the other broken girls we meet along that tragic highway BR116.
It’s the beginning of the 19th century in rural England. Anne Elliot, ‘with an elegance of mind and sweetness of character, was nobody with either father or sister; her word had no weight, her convenience was always to give way – she was only Anne.’
Releasing Janet, by Alex Banwell We all have a past. We’re all products of our family history. Sometimes an innocent remark or incident triggers a process of discovering as aspect of who we really are, and helps us resolve a long-standing hangup. We knew something of the present from Alex Banwell’s delightful fist book, ‘Just…
Scandalous rumours and immoral men do their best to ruin May Rose Long’s life. But she strives to remain honest and chaste. With neither home nor money, she even adopts the forlorn wild teenager, Wanda, before realising she is her fugitive husband’s daughter. The book is well written and paints a realistic picture of the social…
Ein aktuelles Thema, wo die Welt sich zunehmend mit dem Islam – ob friedlich oder fundamentalistisch – auseinander setzen muss und die Minaretten-Initiative bald vors Schweizervolk kommt! Aber wer kennt sich da aus? Was bewegt mein eingewanderter muslimischer Nachbar? Und was lehrt der Koran bezüglich des Respekts vor Andersgläubigen und des Dschihads?
Silvanus is a young lad intent on becoming a man. When his God Aquila smiles on him, Silvanus finds a cave of precious gems. His dreams of buying a boat and fleeing his island home are that much closer! Instead, a series of events lead Silvanus to the bizarre old hermit, Cerbonius. His uncanny wisdom…