Category: Culture

Rating: 3/5 An informative, colourfully illustrated fiction book about the Egyptian queen Cleopatra told through the eyes of her handmaiden Nefret. It was reasonably well-written

Rating: 4/5 Lyra lives in a world mirroring the one as we know it today. There are references to places that do exist—for example Oxford

Rating: 2/5 At first, Omri isn’t exactly grateful for Patrick’s present to him. It’s a minuscule plastic figure – a red Indian with a tiny

Rating: 3/5 Young Rudolf Rassendyll lived a quiet, somewhat boring life until he took heed of his sister-in-law Rose’s advice and journeyed to the (made

Rating: 2/5 It’s midway through the English Industrial Revolution and the railway is being built. Motherless Jem Penfold has never seen anything so exciting. But

Rating: 2/5 This book was simply ‘ok’. When there were any exciting or gripping parts, it was all over within a page or two. And

Rating: 3/5 Nujood Ali was hastily married off at age around nine (she had no birth certificate and her parents had little idea of what

Rating: 3/5 Tolly is enjoying his happy life with his oldest relative, Mrs Oldknow, in her old house Green Knowe, but is feeling a little

Rating: 4/5 Prince Edward VI and pauper-boy Tom Canty swap clothes for a bit of fun. But when the Prince marches outside in Tom’s rags

Rating: 2/5 Hugo’s father, a clock-maker, died in a tragic father. Hugo was then looked after by his uncle, a nasty inebriate who fixed the