For the enjoyment of friends, books and wine …
When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else’s life.
Jane B 9
Pauline C 9
Elaine E 8
Rebecca H 7
Janet J 8
Janine J not read
Sally M 8
Cai M 8
Christine P 9
Trude S 8
June T 9
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her.
When Beard’s professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster. Ranging from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of New Mexico, this is a story of one man’s greed and self-deception; a darkly satirical novel showing human frailty struggling with the most pressing and complex problem of our time.
Jane B not interested (oops…)
Pauline C 9
Elaine E 7
Rebecca H 3
Janet J not finished (again! oops…)
Janine J 8
Sally M 7
Cai M 3
Christine P 9
Trude S 6
June T 8
The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid, on Rachel’s cousin Franklin Blake, on a troupe of mysterious Indian jugglers, and on Rachel herself.
The phlegmatic Sergeant Cuff is called in, and with the help of Betteredge, the Robinson Crusoe-reading loquacious steward, the mystery of the missing stone is ingeniously solved.
Jane B 3
Pauline C 6
Elaine E 2
Rebecca H 4
Janet J not finished
Janine J 8
Sally M 8
Cai M 4
Christine P 7
Trude S 6
June T 3