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‘The Road’ Short Book Review

Rowan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:37:40 +0000

I’d been wanting to get a hold of this for a couple of years but had never actually come across it in a local book shop. ‘The Road’ is possibly the bleakest fiction I’ve ever read. The story follows a boy and his father struggling to survive in a journey south to the coast across [...]

‘The White Tiger’ Short Book Review

Rowan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:51:38 +0000

An innovative cross between a Dickens novel and ‘Crime and Punishment’ (without the moral / psychological quandry of the latter being at the forefront) ‘The White Tiger’ is the black as coal and worryingly humourous story from childhood to success of a man from the Indian “darkness”. How true to life the story depicted is [...]

Panic by Jeff Abbott – book review

Rowan — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:04:57 +0000

I’ll confess something, for a while I got sick of thrillers. Slowly discovering plot detail from impossibly dangerous situation to impossibly dangerous situation whilst enduring the odd quiet bit just got… old. Perhaps absence makes the heart grow fonder however, because I really enjoyed Panic.

Panic is about a man who receives a phone [...]