If you know Thrush Green,you'll know it to be a nice quiet village where not a lot happens,but this story is actually very exciting,because there's a big fire!Don't worry,I won't spoil it by telling you where,and nobody gets hurt,but it is very important for Thrush Green and its inhabitants,as it will bring a lot of changes to the village. As usual,great illustrations by John Goodall really bring...
...unless its how you like to sort cecil. There was no plot, stupidly long and complicated speeches and above all lots of uneccessary sex that in no real way tied in with the book at all. My elder sibling recieved another one of his books for christmas and it seems that along with glory holes and nests of curls, he just copies the same sexual explanations across with no effort of changing it. Buy something...
Allan Stronach has done Barry Hines proud in the writing of The Play of Kes , it is an excellent depiction of the life that a boy would live in the mine working 60s, the play brings you very close to Billy Casper and his kestrel. This great play does not have any trouble bringing a tear to the audiences eye at the end of the play.
'What shall we do?' said Twoflower.
'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival. When the very fabric of time and space are about to be put through the wringer - in this instance by the imminent arrival of a very large and determinedly oncoming meteorite - circumstances require a very particular type of...
I bought Alan Bennett's books on tape for my mother. She used to listen to them in bed at night, lying in the dark as Bennett's gentle, querulous voice described the minutiae of his family life in all its banal detail, illuminated by his wonderful observation and humour. Any one of his sentences will raise a smile. A whole book's-worth leaves you glowing with a feeling that all of our lives are equally...
The Colour of Magic is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the bizarre land of Discworld. His entertaining and witty series has grown to more than 20 books, and this is where it all starts--with the tourist Twoflower and his hapless wizard guide, Rincewind ("All wizards get like that... it's the quicksilver fumes. Rots their brains. Mushrooms, too."). Pratchett spoofs fantasy clichés--and...
This book realistic as if Steinbeck actually went there and experienced it for himself the characters are individually crafted by have alot in common. The main characters are Lennie and George, they travel across America bucking barley for a liven. This story concentrates on one of the ranches they work at. There they meet not many different characters. There are many strong themes running throught...
I have to take issue with the previous reviewer who only awarded 2 stars because he felt the author did not explain the characters fully enough in this book. This is the eighteenth in a series of twenty, a fact of which any casual reader will quickly become aware. It is made perfectly clear from the list of titles on the rear cover and the obvious next step is to search out the first in the series...
