Rating: 3/5 When the baby Achilles was born, his mother, the sea-goddess Thetis, held him by the heel and dipped him in the River Styx,
Category: Culture
Rating: 2/5 The first book in this series was very good – the second was absolutely un-put-down-able. But this one was just so meh… it
Rating: 4/5 This book was all about Roald Dahl’s adventures as a boy; from his primary school and his school holidays to his private academy
Rating: 2/5 Mrs Frisby’s youngest son Timothy is ill with pneumonia and it’s serious. Mr Ages, the doctor, says that he must not get out
Rating: 5/5 It is now about six years after Sally Lockhart solved the mystery of the Ruby in the Smoke, and she has organised her
Rating: 3/5 This book was all of witty, funny, hilarious and hysterical. Paddington’s adventures in France had nothing short of uproarious humour – and yet
Rating: 3/5 Paddington was a bear found at the station of that name by the Brown family; this all happened in book one of the
Rating: 3/5 The first Paddington book, and perhaps the second, too, have been the best so far by a long way. In this novel, Paddington
Rating: 4/5 Lord and Lady Greystoke, perhaps better known as John and Alice Clayton, went away on an expedition in the deepest depths of Africa.
Rating: 4/5 This book is the story of Sally Lockhart. Her father, Captain Matthew Lockhart, a shipping agent from London, recently died near the East