The sequel to Stephen King's novel "The Shining" will be released on September 24th. The book is called "Doctor Sleep", and we have it available for hold if your tastes run to the dark and macabre. The story features Danny Torrance grown and something has followed him. The novel features the now middle-aged Dan Torrance... Continue Reading →
The Salmon of Doubt – Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time, by Douglas Adams
Needless to say, Douglas Adams was not your average fellow. Towering over the majority of us, not only in stature, but in terms of intellect, wit and all-round likeability, he was rudely snatched away at the age of 49. Adams’ humour was one of a kind: Eoin Colfer did a decent enough job of writing... Continue Reading →
Bridget Jones returns in “Mad about the Boy”
This October, the grande dame of chick lit is returning with her beloved, beleaguered and bewildered creation , Bridget Jones, but is it too late or too different a world for Fielding and Miss Jones? I fell under the spell of Bridget, Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver, as well as the myriad of other characters ... Continue Reading →
Where the Shadows Lie, by Michael Ridpath
Was Tolkien a plagiarist? How many gritty police detectives can one genre of fiction reasonably accommodate? And, does Iceland have trees? Important questions all; the answers to which, respectively are: kind of but not really; apparently many, and; the odd one or two. Already a successful author, Ridpath was in the depths of a massive... Continue Reading →
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