Highly acclaimed war novels would include War and Peace constructed by the brilliant Leo Tolstoy and All Quiet on the Western Front  by Erich Maria Remarque, however I’m firmly petitioning for the added addition of the The Book Thief by Markus Zusak to this invisible cannon. The novel is narrated by Death, a small-what cheerful, […]

Anne of Green Gables is a book that for me is bursting with childhood memories. I cannot remember exactly how old I was when I first read it, maybe 8 or 9, but I enjoyed it then and I enjoy it now, and I will bet my life’s savings that […]

I’ve never been a fan of vampires. TV dramas and films are so saturated with them that the thought of reading a novel centred on the most famous vampire of all made me groan. Yet, with the possibility that I may be studying this novel at university in the near […]