The love story of a fictional couple serves as an argument for enlightened romantic pessimism: don’t marry for love, marry someone you like.
Tag: general fiction
Ministry for the Future
There’s no magic bullet for the climate. We may need a complete rectification of our values, lifestyles and social structures.
Extraordinary Hope
Plenty of sugarcoating in this feelgood novel about the homeless, junkies, alcoholics and people with mental health problems.
Three Hours
A school is under siege by gunmen for three hours on a snowy morning. A tense, gripping and very moving story. Superbly written and plotted.
Love
Love between friends, between parents and children, between spouses. And that weird, unreliable, deceptive kind of love — being ‘in love’.
The Things We Left Unsaid
Parents, if they love you, will never fully reveal the past. No matter how much you know, you’ll never have the full, lived story.
19th century authors: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Best known for her sensationalist novels, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (née Maxwell) published more than 80 wonderful novels between1860 and 1910.
The Exiles
A well-written, well-researched and gripping story about female convicts shipped to Australia in the mid 19th century
When the Lights Go Out
The impact of climate change on one family: constant rain, unemployment and the stress of trying to live as though life was still ‘normal’.
Where the Edge Is
Where the edge is is about the events surrounding a bus that falls into a sinkhole early one morning in a small town in Ireland. But the bus crash itself