If you’ve been watching – and enjoying – the recent dramatisation of Queen Victoria’s life starring Jenna Coleman this might well be the book for you. Worsley has brought a fresh and engaging aspect to both her television documentaries and her publications. Previous biographies of the monarch have tended to […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Famous for her unique wit and her ability to put into very funny words what she is quite sure no-one else is thinking, Caitlin Moran presents her latest book. Moranifesto is a collection of her magazine and newspaper columns as well as some new diatribes just for this publication. Although […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
I never read celebrity biographies. NEVER. Every Christmas there is a table in my local bookstore full of the latest asinine self congratulatory books, ghost written for people that don’t really deserve to be called celebrities. Honestly I was nervous picking up Scrappy Little Nobody. Anna Kendrick is only 31 […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
‘Another year and I still don’t like old people. Me? I am 83 years old.’ Hendrik Groen lives in an old people’s home in the Netherlands and this is the diary of his 83rd year. He suffers from a number of age related ailments and has a bladder weakness but […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
UK Publishing Date: 4 Feb 2016. 256 pages I wasn’t entirely sure that I wanted to read this book. Like many others throughout the world, cancer has claimed family and friends very close to me and that does skew how you approach a subject like this. It felt like it […]
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes