Dr Mutter's Marvels is a wonderful account of the life of surgeon Dr Thomas Mutter, a daring and fantastic individual in the truest sense.
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I love the movie Spaceballs. It’s a wonderful Star Wars parody, and Mel Brookes totally nailed it. When I came across my copy of this paperback, I didn’t even know that a book of the film existed.
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I’ll admit I first picked up this book because of the title. I hadn’t heard of the author, or the film for that matter which the cover informed me was ‘now a major motion picture’. The title however, is awesome. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - how could I resist!
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Heather Morris re-tells the story of Lale Sokolov, a man who escapes certain death in the Nazi Concentration Camp, Auschwitz, by agreeing to become the Nazi’s Tattooist. A privileged position that requires him to tattoo everyone who is brought into the camp with the infamous numbers …
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If you are easily outraged or squeamish, then this is not the book for you. From the get go it’s an action packed thrill ride that you can’t put down. To be honest I haven’t even bothered to watch the Netflix series because the book was enough for me.
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Like anyone who grew up with movies like Scarface and The Godfather, or who heard the stories of the Kray Brothers and Al Capone, the Mob has always held a macabre fascination. Portrayed as an honourable crime institution while being openly reviled as a despicable group of violent bullies, thieves and murderers….
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I love reading about physics, even though the maths escapes me. I’m still not sure if that’s because I’m no good at the maths or I just find it boring so my brain just switches off. But I love the theory. I love the way it opens your mind and gets the old cogs whirring.
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Having adored Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology, and hearing they were making a TV series based on American Gods, which I fully intend to watch when I have a spare moment, I promptly went out and grabbed myself a copy of the book. Yes, I am one of those people. I have to read the book first…
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Richard Adams is an absolute master at giving animals human traits, and personalities that are so perfectly aligned you don’t realise that you’re seeing life through the eyes of a rabbit or a dog – you simply become lost in the story, facing the adversity these animals often have to overcome as they try to live side by side with human beings in an ever shrinking world.
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In all honesty I picked up this book in a second hand store simply because the author is John Wyndham, and I love his works, which includes the famous The Day of the Triffids. I’m happy I did because I love this story! First published in 1960, the copy I have was re-printed in 1971 and does have the coolest cover I must say.
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My only complaint about this book is that it wasn’t long enough. Truly I would have happily kept reading about Odin and Thor, Loki and Hela, Asgard and Baldr forever. This is the perfect book for your daily commute, bath-time luxuriating or lazing under a tree on a summer’s day.
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I first saw the original, 1953 film version of the War of the Worlds when I was about 12 years old, and it immediately kicked off a life-long love affair with H.G Wells. As soon as I realised a book inspired the movie, I picked up a copy for myself, which I still have 28 years later!
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Russian history is something I’ve always wanted to learn more about, but never gotten around to it. Especially the Russian Royal family, The Romanovs. And I’m not just talking about the tragic murders of Nicholas II and his family.
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Set in a future where Kenya has become a leader in space exploration, largely in part due to its geographical location, Andy Weir’s second book takes us deep inside the seedy underbelly of life within the Artemis Moon base.
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