Book review: Fresh horizons for young readers
There is an inter-continental flavour to some new and exciting books from two small publishers who delight in bringing children some offbeat treats.From the magical adventures of a French-style Harry...
View ArticleBook review: The Burning by M. R. Hall
Clear the diary and cancel the papers… the latest gripping instalment of M. R. Hall’s Coroner Jenny Cooper crime series won’t leave time for anything until the last page has turned.The Burning is the...
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Hutton Cranswick SRA QUIZ NIGHTSThe next Quiz will be held tomorrow, Friday 21 February at 7.30pm, cost £3 per person. Yvonne will be doing one of her special buffets and will need to know numbers by...
View ArticleBook review: Liverpool Angels by Lyn Andrews
One of the North West’s most popular storytellers returns with a gritty, gripping tale of love, loss and war.With 34 enchanting novels to her name, Lyn Andrews is the undisputed queen of the Merseyside...
View ArticleBook review: The Scandalous Duchess by Anne O’Brien
Their right royal affair was the scandal of the age but it was a love that survived against all odds and gave birth to the Tudor dynasty…When John of Gaunt, the 14th century Duke of Lancaster, fell...
View ArticleBook review: The One You Love by Paul Pilkington
Lancashire author Paul Pilkington’s Emma Holden mystery trilogy was an ebook sensation, topping the Kindle charts on both sides of the Atlantic, and now a revised and expanded print version is set to...
View ArticleBook review: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
It was a story that had to be told…When writer Daniel James Brown sat at the deathbed of his elderly neighbour Joe Rantz in Seattle, he stumbled across an epic true-life adventure which took nine...
View ArticleBook review: Agent of Rome: The Far Shore by Nick Brown
By the third century AD, Roman influence was waning and the edges of empire were being frayed by native tribes flexing their new-found muscles.And it was a deadly and dangerous time for those whose...
View ArticleBook review: The White Princess by Philippa Gregory
In the history books, she is the York princess whose union with the Lancastrian King Henry VII ended the bitter Wars of the Roses, the peacemaker wife who helped found the famous Tudor dynasty… But how...
View ArticleBook review: The Reviver by Seth Patrick
When the film rights to a novel are snapped up before it is even published, you know you are in for something special…And The Reviver doesn’t disappoint. From its arresting first sentence through an...
View ArticleBook review: The Heretics by Rory Clements
As the curtain rises on the fifth ‘act’ of Rory Clements’ prize-winning John Shakespeare Elizabethan mystery series, there are whispers of a new stage set for the Tudor spy’s thrilling adventures.A TV...
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langtoftCHURCH SERVICES IN THE BENEFICESunday 16 March. 2nd Sunday of Lent. 9.30am The Eucharist at All Saints, Thwing, with President Rev’d Stuart Grant, and Preacher Rev’d Jacki Tonkin. 10.40am for...
View ArticleBook review: The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov
Between 1949 and 1989, a huge Soviet nuclear test site deep inside Kazakhstan emitted radioactive fall-out 2,500 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.The devastating effect on...
View ArticleBook review: Hermelin: The Detective Mouse and other animal crackers from...
A menagerie of very special creatures are the stars of a sparkling spring collection from top children’s books publisher Random House.There’s a mouse on the trail of a puzzling mystery, an exciting new...
View ArticleBook review: The Key to It All by Joanna Rees
Joanna Rees has always liked a big stage for her racy novels featuring tales of wealth, glamour, greed and corruption…But her latest epic, The Key to It All, sails into new and spectacular territory as...
View ArticleBook review: The Accident by Chris Pavone
After 15 years in the New York publishing industry, Chris Pavone knows better than most what makes a good book…Last year’s sensational debut, The Expats – a globe-trotting, cat-and-mouse spy thriller –...
View ArticleBook review: The Eagle’s Vengeance by Anthony Riches
Britannia is in chaos, fearsome tribal women are torturing and killing Roman soldiers… and intrepid imperial fugitive and centurion Marcus Valerius Aquila is on another mission seemingly impossible.The...
View ArticleBook review: The Stolen by T. S. Learner
The inhuman treatment of the European Roma gypsies during the Holocaust has long haunted playwright and novelist T.S.Learner…And when you are a talented thriller writer who likes to inform as well as...
View ArticleBook review: River Calder by Roger Frost, Ian Thompson and Victoria Dewhurst
Tucked away in the well-trodden Lancashire countryside near Burnley is the mysteriously named Valley of the Goblins.The real name of this wild, isolated and beautiful spot is Thursden, part of a...
View ArticleBook review: The big, the Bard and the beautiful with Usborne books
April marks the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth and Usborne children’s books are helping youngsters to understand and enjoy the greatest figure in England’s cultural heritage.In...
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