Monthly Archives: September, 2015
Interesting Facts about Kahlil Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’ by guest author Oliver Tearle
Here’s a question for you. Can you name the three biggest-selling poets in the world? Shakespeare has to be in there (and he is – at number one in most accounts), but what about the other two? Wordsworth? Homer? Tennyson? John Betjeman, maybe? His poetry sold a lot of copies in the twentieth century. No, …
Corridors of the Night by Anne Perry reviewed by guest author Ionia Martin
Corridors of the Night by Anne Perry begins one night, in a corridor of the Royal Naval Hospital in Greenwich, nurse Hester Monk is approached by a terrified girl. She’s from a hidden ward of children, all subject to frequent blood-letting, and her brother is dying. While William Monk’s River Police fight to keep …
Five Ways to Kill a Man by Alex Gray
Alex Gray comes from Glasgow, Scotland. I am delighted at how her writing has developed and strengthened as her writing career has progressed. When I read one of her early books, A Small Weeping, reviewed on this site at https://bookreviewstoday.info/2013/03/13/a-small-weeping-by-alex-gray/, I did not enjoy the book as much as I had hoped to. However, when I heard her speak recently …
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