Bruce Davie rated The Mirror & the Light: 4 stars
The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall Trilogy (Volume 3))
“If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?”
England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is …
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Bruce Davie rated The Body: A Guide for Occupants: 5 stars
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable com- panion as he guides us through the human body—how …
Bruce Davie rated David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest: 5 stars
Bruce Davie rated Infinite Jest: 5 stars
Infinite Jest by Stephen Burn, David Foster Wallace (Continuum contemporaries)
A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America.
Set in an addicts' halfway house and a …
Bruce Davie rated Lucky Jim: 5 stars
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first novel …
Bruce Davie rated Elmet: 4 stars
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
"Cathy and Daniel live in the remote woods of Yorkshire with their gentle brute of a father, a former enforcer …
Bruce Davie rated Possession: 5 stars
Possession by A. S. Byatt
Possession: A Romance is a 1990 best-selling novel by British writer A. S. Byatt that won the 1990 Booker Prize. …
Bruce Davie rated Wolf Hall: 5 stars
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall (2009) is a historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour …
Bruce Davie rated Bring Up the Bodies: 5 stars
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Winners of the Man Booker Prize and hugely successful stage plays in London's West End and on Broadway, Wolf Hall …
Bruce Davie rated Nutshell: 5 stars
Nutshell by Ian McEwan
"Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home--a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse--but John's not here. Instead, …
Bruce Davie rated Factfulness: 5 stars
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. …
Bruce Davie rated Infinite City: 5 stars
Infinite City by Rebecca Solnit
"What makes a place?"Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer …
Bruce Davie rated In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1): 4 stars
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1) by Tana French
In the Woods is a 2007 mystery novel by Tana French about a pair of Irish detectives and their investigation …
Bruce Davie rated The Testaments: 5 stars
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
15 years after the sons of Jacob seized power in the USA and became Gilead. The story is told from …
Bruce Davie rated The Testaments: 5 stars
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic--and now she brings the iconinc story to a …