The two strands of the story with the two sisters start to get to a stage where you can see them coming back together again with a possible ...

Helena seems to be settling for a quiet life but her son arrives with wife and his own child in tow and tells her that they have to move. Th...

It is my wife's 40th birthday today. Before you wonder I am a bit of a toy boy so have not quite hit that milestone yet. Although who sa...

Helena stands by her man and watches as he starts to live a different life from her indulging himself with a mistress and taking part in a r...

This epic Tolystian mimicking tale starts to get down to brass tacks with the real battle that is being fought in Russia coming to the fore ...

Helena is taken away from England by the would-be next Caesar who falls ion love with her despite himself. He takes her to Europe and promis...

There were a couple of moments when it was difficult to picture a general’s daughter in Roman Britain. Her expressions of “chum” and “what a...

My eldest son is using this bookmark in his home work about somebody famous – in this case Lionel Walter Rothschild who set up the natural H...

To a certain degree one half of the story starts to fuse with Dasha finally meeting Telegin in a makeshift army hospital. She keeps her iden...

The book ends and it is only at the final few passages given in evidence by Dr Jones that the format of telling the story by documents start...

The weird thing about the timing of reading this book, that has its comic moments but is more than just a straight comedy by Joshua Ferris ,...

There is a style of writing that sets up a character to embody an argument as a way of life and Andre Gide delivers a great example of that...

This is the last book in the trilogy by William Golding that charts the passage across the oceans from England to Australia of Edmund Talbo...

The story picks up with the civil war entering its last stage. There is a bit of description that makes you feel slightly disappointed readi...

The moment when the salmon arrive in the desert gets closer and as it does there is a revived interest from the prime minister. Meanwhile th...