Val Penny ♦ July 11, 2014 ♦ Leave a comment
John Robin Jenkins OBE (Order of the British Empire) was born on 11 September 1912 in Flemington, near Cambuslang in the West of Scotland. He died on 24 February 2005. He and his three siblings were brought up by his mother after his father died when he was only seven years old. His mother did …
Val Penny ♦ November 27, 2013 ♦ 2 Comments
The Children Of Men is unlike any other book by P.D.James I have ever read. It was an excellent choice for my book group. Another of her books, Shroud for a Nightingale is reviewed on this site too, at bookreviewstoday.info/2013/07/04/shroud-for-a-n…e-by-p-d-james. The author, Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL is more usually known as …
Val Penny ♦ July 4, 2013 ♦ Leave a comment
Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL, known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and a life peer in the House of Lords, UK. She was born on 3 August 1920 and died 27 November 2014. Shroud for a Nightingale is a book my mother gave me many years …
Val Penny ♦ June 14, 2013 ♦ Leave a comment
Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, driven, stubborn. Bearing in mind his turbulent private life I find it funny when he gives conciliatory family advice on his Kitchen Nightmares television program. However, this is his own story. In this bestselling autobiography, Humble Pie, Ramsay tells his life story starting long …
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