Synopsis (from book cover):
Humanity’s most ancient secret is about to be revealed…
In the sunburned deserts of eastern Turkey, archaeologists are unearthing a stone temple, the world’s most ancient building. When journalist Rob Luttrell is sent to report on the dig, he is intrigued to learn that someone deliberately buried the site 10,000 years ago, Why?
Only [...]
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The Genesis Secret by Tom Knox
14 Comments CherryPie on Nov 18th 2009
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Saturday by Ian McEwan
This was one of my book group reads. Tonight is the first meeting after the summer break and the group will be discussing their thoughts on the book. As I have been off sick for a couple of days with the lurgy I decided it was safer to stay at home and chill out a [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Sep 10th 2009
…Or the Murder at Road Hill House.
Synopsis (from book cover):
It is midnight on 30th June 1860 and all is quiet in the Kent family’s elegant house in Road, Wiltshire. The next morning, however, they wake to find their youngest son has been the victim of an unimaginably gruesome murder. Even worse, the guilty party is [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Sep 3rd 2009
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A Year in Tibet by Sun Shuyun
Synopsis (from book cover):
Sun Shuyun grew up in China and has always been fascinated by Tibet and by Buddhism. Accompanied by a television crew, she spent a year in a remote town in the Tibetan mountain area and recorded what life is like for the people there.
Despite half a century of Communist rule, the residents [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 24th 2009
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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Synopsis:
Born in a village in heartland India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coals and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape – of breaking away from the banks of Mother Ganga, into whose depths [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Aug 18th 2009
…The planet, life & people from the big bang to the present day…
Synopsys (from book cover):
How old is the universe? When did life on earth begin? What happened to dinosaurs? How was the moon created? How did ancient Chinese science shape the modern world? How did Islam trigger globalisation? Are humans really superior to [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Aug 3rd 2009
I have now finished reading the Morville Hours which I quoted from in my post yesterday. So what did I think of it?
Synopsys (from book cover):
Katherine Swift takes the reader on a journey through time, back to the forces which shaped the garden, linking the history of those who lived in the same Shropshire house [...]
13 Comments CherryPie on Jul 8th 2009
