Reviewsday: JFK: The Smoking Gun by Colin McLaren
Before I start telling you about JFK: The Smoking Gun, it’s important to talk about the author. Colin McLaren is a former police detective sergeant and task force leader, who spent four years researching the JFK cold case. He gained access to, and thoroughly analysed, the full 27 volumes of the Warren Commission Report, the […]
Reviewsday: Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram is first and foremost the story of a man on the run after escaping from prison in Australia, assuming a false identity and living in Bombay. The scope of the story is epic – every character is a study in culture, language and ethnicity; every location – from the tourist bars to the slums […]
Reviewsday: The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. So begins […]
Reviewsday: The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes
Minnow has no hands. The leader of a cult ordered them removed, and now she’s on trial for almost beating a boy to death. Minnow’s story unfolds in both directions; with us learning about the trials of life in the Kevinian cult, run by a man whose rules change with the weather; watching Minnow grow […]
