Review: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Format Read: eBook
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Release Date: 1887
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Book Blurb:

The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Study in Scarlet”, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science detection, and John H. Watson, the great detective’s faithful chronicler. This novel not only establishes the magic of the Holmes myth but also provides the reader with a dramatic adventure yarn which ranges from the foggy, gas-lit streets of London to the burning plains of Utah.

My Thoughts:

It was in A Study in Scarlet that Arthur Conan Doyle first introduced to the world’s most well known fictional detective – Sherlock Holmes. Not only do we get to meet Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, but we get …

French Fried by Chris Dolley

Format Read: PDFNumber of Pages: 229Release Date: June 2010Publisher: Book View Cafe Formats Available: Ebook (Kindle, epub,PDF, RTF, LRF)Purchasing Info: Amazon, Smashwords, Book View Cafe, Author’s website

Book Blurb:

Animals behaving badly, other people’s misfortunes and the most bizarre true crime story ever. French Fried is the unfortunately true account of Chris Dolley’s first eight months in France and has been described as ‘A Year in Provence with Miss Marple and Gerald Durrell.’

Moving house with three cats, two horses and an enormous puppy is fraught at the best of times. But during a storm? Within ten minutes of Chris and Shelagh landing in France a gust of wind rips the roof off their horse transporter and they and their animals are left on a cliff top while a replacement horsebox is sent …

Review: The Book of Lost Threads by Tess Evans

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 368Release Date: June 2010Publisher: Allen and UnwinFormats Available: Paperback Purchasing Info: The Book Depository.co.uk, The Book Depository.com, Good Reads, Allen and Unwin

Book Blurb:

Tender, funny and memorable, Book of Lost Threads is a story about love and loss, parents and children, hope, faith and the value of simple kindness.

Moss has run away from Melbourne to Opportunity on the trail of a man she knows only by name. But her arrival sets in train events that disturb the long-held secrets of three of the town’ s inhabitants: Finn, a brilliant mathematician, who has become a recluse; Lily Pargetter, eighty-three-year-old knitter of tea cosies; and Sandy, the town buffoon, who dreams of a Great Galah.

It is only as Moss, Finn, Lily and Sandy develop unlikely friendships that they find a way to lay their …

Review: Murder on a Midsummer Night by Kerry Greenwood

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 300Release Date: November 2008Publisher: Allen and UnwinFormats Available: Paperback, HardbackPurchasing Info: The Book Depository.co.uk, Amazon, The Book Depository.com,  Good Reads

Book Blurb:

Melbourne, 1929. The year starts off for glamorous private investigator Phryne Fisher with a rather trying heat wave and more mysteries than you could prod a parasol at. Simultaneously investigating the apparent suicide death of a man on St Kilda beach and trying to find a lost, illegitimate child who could be heir to a wealthy old woman’s fortune, Phryne needs all her wits about her, particularly when she has to tangle with a group of thoroughly unpleasant Bright Young Things. But Phryne Fisher is a force of nature, and takes in her elegant stride what might make others quail, including ghosts, Kif smokers, the threat of human …

Review: The Boat by Nam Le

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 271Release Date: 16 March 2010Publisher: VintageFormats Available: PaperbackPurchasing Info: Nam Le’s Website, The Book Depository, Good ReadsBook Blurb: A stunningly inventive, deeply moving fiction debut: stories that take us from the slums of Colombia to the streets of Tehran; from New York City to Iowa City; from a tiny fishing village in Australia to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea, in a masterly display of literary virtuosity and feeling.

In the magnificent opening story, “Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice,” a young writer is urged by his friends to mine his father’s experiences in Vietnam — and what seems at first a satire of turning one’s life into literary commerce becomes a transcendent exploration of homeland, and the ties between father and son. “Cartagena” provides a …