The Best Guide for the HU18 Area

What We've Been Reading

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  Temeraire by Naomi Novik

  Published: Thu, 28/02/2013 14:43

  The year is 1804 and the War of the Third Coalition in Europe against Napoleon is not going well, and Britain itself is under threat of invasion not only from the sea, but from the sky itself as the French aerial fleet of dragons threatens to prepare for an aerial invasion of Britain.

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  The Distant Hours by Kate Morton

  Published: Wed, 30/01/2013 13:44

  A long lost letter arrives in the post and Edie Burchill travels to Milderhurst Castle, where her mother was evacuated as a child during the War, and meets the eccentric Sisters Blythe. Inside the castle she begins to unravel her mother's past but she is to learn more than she expected; the truth of what happened in the distant hours...

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  Book Review - The Herring Seller's Apprentice

  Published: Tue, 25/09/2012 20:23

  A book review of The Herring Seller's Apprentice, written by L C Tyler.

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  House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones

  Published: Fri, 13/04/2012 12:57

  Charmain Baker is in over her head. Looking after Great Uncle William's tiny cottage should have been easy, but he is the Royal Wizard Norland whose house bends space and time. Its single door leads to any number of places: the bedrooms, the kitchen, the caves under the mountains - even the past!

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  Castle In The Air by Diana Wynne Jones

  Published: Wed, 14/03/2012 12:21

  By day Abdullah is a humble carpet merchant, yet in his dreams he is a prince. But his dreams start to come true when he meets the lovely Flower-in-the-Night. When a hideous djinn carries Flower off into the sky. Abdullah is determined to rescue her - if he can find her.

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  A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

  Published: Wed, 18/01/2012 11:11

  A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami’s international reputation. As with many of Haruki Murakami's novels, the plot curdles with complex diversity only to be resolved by a collision between wild fantasy and outright slapstick.

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  Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

  Published: Thu, 15/12/2011 14:49

  In the land of Ingary where seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, Sophie Hatter attracts the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste, who puts a curse on her. Determined to make the best of things, Sophie travels to the one place where she might get help - the moving castle which hovers on the nearby hills.

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  The Dog of the Marriage by Amy Hempel

  Published: Tue, 11/10/2011 11:48

  Hempel's compact fictions, populated by smart, neurotic, somewhat damaged narrators speak grandly to the longings and insecurities in all of us. With her trademark compassion and wit, she takes readers into marriages, minor disasters and moments of revelation in a voice that is bracingly direct and sneakily profound.

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  Breath - by Tim Winton

  Published: Fri, 05/09/2008 22:15

  "It's funny, but you never think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about..."

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  Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver

  Published: Mon, 25/08/2008 20:07

  Finished Harry Potter? Looking for another series to get your teeth into? You could do a lot worse than getting stuck into 'The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness'...

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  Before I Die - Jenny Downham

  Published: Sun, 17/08/2008 16:37

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