Books

Giveaway: Three Questions by Meagan Adele Lopez

Three Questions: Because a Quarter Life Crisis Needs Answers is Meagan Adele Lopez’s first novel and she’s done a fine job of fashioning a story that’s a real page turner, in fact I read it in a record time for me: three hours. I couldn’t Continue Reading →

More Postcards from Across the Pond

It’s not very often that a sequel to a great book turns out better than its predecessor but that’s the case with More Postcards from Across the Pond. I reviewed Mike Harling’s first book Postcard’s from Across the Pond three years ago and it was Continue Reading →

Guest Post: Review of The Real Elizabeth by Andrew Marr

After reading  The Real Elizabeth by Andrew Marr I realized as an American we know so little about the Queen. The Queen has been there, in the background tending to her duties day after day. For most of us, Queen Elizabeth has reigned our whole lives. And we have Continue Reading →

Visit the Settings of Great British Literature

February 7, 2012 marked 200 years since the birth of Charles Dickens, one of England’s most celebrated authors. As Rochester, Chatham, Portsmouth and London capitalise on the bicentenary with a year of special events and exhibitions to draw visitors, VisitEngland Continue Reading →

Things We Say That We Owe to Shakespeare

It’s just a copy of a page from a notebook belonging to a blogger, but it’s gone viral and even received a mention on NPR this morning. Lucky, clever blogger.   (Source)  Continue Reading →

A Study in Scarlet

With the BBC’s Sherlock (quite rightly) winning awards left, right and centre, and the next Robert Downey Jr. take due sometime soon, I thought I’d take a moment or several to enthuse about the legend that is Sherlock Holmes. In many ways, it seems like a bit Continue Reading →

Great British Literature – Gulliver’s Travels

With the new Jack Black film in cinemas, I was inspired to write about the real Gulliver’s Travels, the 1726 novel by Jonathan Swift. Or rather, according to the introduction to the copy I have, ‘a kind of novel’. ‘Kind of’ because the book is more than Continue Reading →

Great British Literature – The Woman in White

The following is a guest post from Gareth Watkins from http://www.letmeknowhowthatgoes.wordpress.com My previous post was on Dickens’ Bleak House, so you could be fooled into thinking there was a planned pattern emerging as The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, Continue Reading →

My Favorite Things 2010

Hey, if Oprah can do it so can I, except, there won’t be any trips to Australia I’m afraid and sadly no giveaways either, but I’ve had lots of good ones this year, haven’t I? More to come in the New Year, I’m sure. In the meantime, Continue Reading →

Britain and Ireland Book Winner

Congratulations to Wandering Chopsticks for winning a copy of National Geographic’s Britain and Ireland. Thanks to everyone who entered. #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:12px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; width:425px;} /* Add Continue Reading →