132,827
edits
Changes
From TheBookbag
Jump to navigationJump to searchBook Reviews From The Bookbag (view source)
Revision as of 06:08, 5 September 2014
, 06:08, 5 September 2014no edit summary
'''Read [[:Category:Features|the latest features]].'''<!-- Remove -->
{{newreview
|title=The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe
|author=Alexander McCall Smith
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When I finished the fourteenth novel in this series I felt very warm and happy. Things were going so well for all the characters, and it seemed that Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi had reached a wonderful high in their friendship. Of course, these things cannot last and, surprisingly, I found that I was rather glad of the return of some of Mma Makuti's more outspoken nature! Just what is she getting up to this time?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704331</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|title=Mind Change
|summary=In early August 1974 I was in what was then Yugoslavia. There was a group of us, all interested in the political news, but essentially cut off from the outside world apart from the previous day's English newspapers which arrived mid morning. It was on the 11th of August that one of our number dashed onto the beach yelling ''He's resigned. He's RESIGNED!!!'' No one had any need to ask who he was talking about. We'd all been following the news about Richard Nixon's doings and wrongdoings for a year, with no one certain that he would be forced out of office. The investigative journalism (oh, for the days when journalists uncovered rather than merely covered) was done by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, but some of the most insightful reportage came from Elizabeth Drew writing for ''The New Yorker''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649167</amazonuk>
}}
