Windsor Books

Da Vinci's anatomical drawing is not simply scientific record. It is a great man's comtemplation on humanity through the very basics of physical form. To back up this kind of inquiry, you need a god to in your soul or you have to be the god youself. Without this spiritual aspect, scientific research would turn into something crudely utilitarian or cruelly inhumane as we all have noticed in so many cases in the modern world.

Da Vince is not some mad scientist who messed up with corpses secretly as in a Frenkenstein movie. But do we ever noticed their difference in this country, the supposed most advance country in technology and science? This book would make you think.

James Pattinson's Life-Preserver although fifteen years old has stood the test of time and is up there with his other fire star quality novels such as Obituary for Howard Gray, Crane and The Animal Gang. This is another book you won't want to put down until the last page.

In this adventure we are taken to Central America where a democratically elected president narrowly avoids death in his escape from a military coup. Obviously he must remain in hiding to stay alive so when he is approached by a photographer with pictures of the current president and one of his blood thirsty ruthless general's wives naked together he believes he has a the ultimate life preserver so he can live a life without fear. Of course men who have lived their whole lives through violence do not see it the same way as is evident when he receives a package containing a part of his daughter and demands for the photos in return for the rest of her.

I first read this book in high school and loved it! It was the first book that I had ever read by this author. It has a beautiful setting and the suspense is unbelievable! I was shocked to learn whodunnit, and I believe that you will be too!

This book is excellent reading! Liverpool Daisy is a hard book to put down, its really that good. Daisy may be a hard character at times but the lady has a heart of gold when it comes to her best mate. As a lover of non-fiction, it has surprised me how well I have come to love this author and her books. This book is one of my favorites.

Sex rarely rears its oh-so-indiscreet head in mysteries starring Sir John Appleby, Michael Innes's donnish detective. When it does, it is usually adorned in the lineaments of farce, as is the case in "The Long Farewell" (1958).

Lewis Packford, the great Shakespearean scholar, has come to marriage late in his bookish career, and it has enchanted him so thoroughly that he goes to the altar twice---without an intervening divorce. When both wives simultaneously descend upon Urchins, his ancestral mansion, he appears to take the easy way out of his bigamous dilemma. He is found in his library (most of Innes's corpses are to be found in libraries) with a bullet through his head, a revolver in his hand, and a suicide note with the ink still wet, by his side.

Most appropriately, the suicide note is a quotation from the Bard--not Othello's "Farewell, farewell...why did I marry," as you might expect. It is rather "Farewell, a long farewell..." from Cardinal Wolsey's soliloquy in Shakespeare's "King Henry the VIII" (Act III, Scene 2).

Packford had been dropping hints about the discovery of a sixteenth-century Italian manuscript, annotated by Shakespeare himself, as the framework for his "Othello," but this priceless object seems to have disappeared from the scholar's library upon his death.

Sir John Appleby finds it difficult to believe that Packford committed suicide (he thinks the suicide note is a bit uninventive for such a brilliant scholar), so he invites himself up to Urchins where he is introduced to the two angry wives, plus a house party of scholars and bibliophiles who were present at the time of death.

Might the missing manuscript be connected with Packford's death? Did one of his wives take it upon herself to murder the bigamous bibliophile? Or did Packford really commit suicide?

Sir John weighs in to another notable mixture of crime and scholarship, English eccentrics and American millionaires, farce, murder, and crumbling gothic masonry. "The Long Farewell" is a delightful mystery and by the time the body count reached three, even I had fingered the correct suspect.

Having read so many post-apocalyptic sagas, it requires something rather special indeed to stand out above the rest. Keating's A Long Walk to Wimbledon is, quite simply, one of the very best of the genre. The painstaking wealth of detail crammed into the novel's 190 pages paint a stunningly vivid picture of our hero's trek across London's ruined landscape of the not-too-distant future. Anyone who knows London will revel in the thrill of recognition as familiar, but horribly changed, thoroughfares and landmarks are reached. I couldn't resist following Mark's journey through the metropolis on my London A-Z. The story's strongest feature however, is the sheer humanity (and frequent inhumanity) of the tragic players in a morality play of a world gone to hell. Pearls of poignancy and aching beauty shine out from wretched filth and squalor. Surprisingly, against so grim a background, Keating, the master story-teller, manages to wring a strong message of hope for the human spirit. A perfect bend of allegory and nerve-tingling action and suspense. Keating has created nothing short of a classic in this strongest candidate ever for a "have to read in one sitting" novel.

A brilliant real page turner of a book. Written with great pace, with plenty of fascinating detail, the book starts by letting us to get to know Lord Lucan, the man, and the lifestyle he led. It moves on to dramatically reconstruct the murder itself and Lucan's subsequent disappearance. The book particularly excells when it moves on to searching for Lucan and thories about his disappearance are throughly examined and then rejected. The impression I gained was of thorough detective work leading to one inevitable conclusion.

It is a great story- and a true story. I could not put this book down. I lent it to my Mum and she was equally impressed. If you are interested in the Lord Lucan story- this is a must read book.

With an unabridged audio book that you just might spend your week with stuck in traffic on the freeway, it's not just the wonderful story you choose. Wolfram Kandinsky nails his characters in this great espionage thriller. Best is his portrayal of Leiser, the Polish defector and former agent who is sent back into a hostile East Germany. From the begining we "know" it isn't going to work; but Leiser is a pro... if anyone can, he can! Almost all LeCarre's stories are gems, but after you hear this one I'm sure you'll agree it's the best since The Spy Who Came in From the Cold! I don't just think it is the story; it's the reader who makes the story really come to life, and who makes this Books on Tape edition a stand out!

I received this from my grandmother's collection. When I read
the first tale, The Two Caves, I knew I had to finish the rest. Hope they reissue these! Also includes: "The Silver Horse","Three Men," Lost-One Angel","Saint Nicolas","John", and "Giovanni"
From back cover: "Fate and silver-maned horse guide four orphans to a new home; An angel lost in London brings joy to two old and lonely hearts (our favorite); a disciple of Jesus in an angony of pain and remorse learns the meaning of resurrection; a rapscallion band of itinerant actors play the spirit of Christmas and find it in their tattered souls...

Kathleen "Kat" Kendon has been asked by Todd Bishop to spend the weekend at his New Zealand palatial ancestral home. Todd tells Kat about his mother, the matriarch of the Bishop clan, and about his stuffy brother and his even stuffier fiancèe. However when they arrive, Todd tells Kat that he's told his family they are engaged, because he knows they will be outraged. He's also let his family believe Kat is a stripper when she's actually a serious actress. The reason Todd has done this, he tells Kat, is because he wants to marry a quiet, shy girl from a normal family and he believes that after they get a dose of Kat, his family will be more than glad to welcome Todd's real fiancèe into the family.

Older brother Daniel sees right away that something is wrong with this supposed engagement, but he can't quite figure out what it is. Kat is attracted to Daniel. She fights it, but she can't help herself and she wonders what will happen when Daniel finds out about the charade. And then she learns that Daniel isn't quiet so stuff after all.

Ms. Napier has written a romance that is sure to please any and all Harlequin readers. There is lots going on in this one and readers are sure to get a few laughs and even some thrills at Kat's exploits in the Bishop mansion, not to mention a sure fire does of romance.