Windsor Books

this book contains 4 short stories and they are as good as most other short stories I've read. however, most of the time i do not understand the endings any more than these. the last story of the book Legend of a Badman, Hogan writes a very great story with more information (all good) about the main character than you might get from several others combined. Mr. Hogan keeps you interested at all times. he doesn't waist several pages trying to describe scenery or people. He just gets right to the scene and lets your imagination do some of the work, and i like that. It's a must read for your western library.

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.

Everything of Diana Cooper's that I have ever read was a HIT for me. Her writing style is easy to read and fun. Her depth of wisdom is amazing and I have gotten many life changing moments from reading her books.

this book is written with a sensitivity and understanding which is often missing in modern books. Gascoine quickly envelopes her audience, ensnaring them into Jessica's world and inviting them on her journey of self discovery. It is a fabulous journey and, by the second act, the audience is completely swept up and pleasantly surprised with Jessica's affair with the vibrant Lillian. It is a tremendous book which is hard to get a hold of as it was published in England....a STRONG recommend.

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.