Fraser Coast Libraries

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Doom patrol : the complete second season [videorecording] Author: Guerrero, Diane, 1986-, actor. -- Bowlby, April, 1980-, actor. -- Wade, Joivan, 1993-, actor. -- Bomer, Matthew, 1977-, actor. -- Fraser, Brendan, 1968-, actor. -- Dalton, Timothy, 1944-, actor. -- Shanahan, Riley, actor. -- Zuk, Matthew, actor. -- Warner Publisher: [Australia] : Roadshow Entertainment, [2021] Review by: Geiger, Tyson on: 28/02/2024 9:46:17 AM Member Rating: funny as show adult humour
The good liars / Anita Frank. Author: Frank, Anita, author. Publisher: London : HQ, 2023. -- London : HQ, 2024. -- ©2023 Review by: Ende, Kim on: 20/01/2024 7:00:12 PM Member Rating: A well written and suspenseful book.
Murder at Down Street station / Jim Eldridge. Author: Eldridge, Jim, 1944- author. Publisher: London : Allison & Busby, 2023. Review by: Ende, Kim on: 15/01/2024 8:16:36 AM Member Rating: Another page turner by Jim Eldridge
The landscape of death : a Yorkshire murder mystery / M. S. Morris. Author: Morris, M. S. (Joint pseudonym), author. Publisher: [Oxford] : Landmark Media, [2022] Review by: Ende, Kim on: 5/01/2024 3:07:07 PM Member Rating: Good first novel of DCI Raven set in the amazing landscape of North Yorkshire
Murder most treasonable / Paul Doherty. Author: Doherty, Paul, author. Publisher: Edinburgh : Severn House, 2023. -- Edinburgh : Severn House, 2023. Review by: Ende, Kim on: 8/12/2023 2:13:06 PM Member Rating: Another brilliant book in the Br Athelstan series by Paul Doherty.
Tightrope / Simon Mawer. Author: Mawer, Simon. Publisher: London Little, Brown, 2015. Review by: Loveday, Robert J. Mr. on: 20/11/2023 4:13:57 PM Member Rating: Tightrope is a sequel to The Girl Who Fell from the Sky. I strongly recommend you read this latter book before you read Tightrope, otherwise you will be straining to understand some of the relationships and fail to fully appreciate the characters. The war is over and Marian returns to England after working with the French Resistance and spending 18 months in a German concentration camp. Can she, after all she has been through, after all the loses she has experienced, return to civvy street and a normal life? She may adopt the shell of normality, a marriage and nine-to-five job, but her past will not leave her in peace. The Cold War is heating up. A relationship with a charismatic Russian marks her as a prime candidate for a honey trap. But will she be trapping the Russian or will the Russian trap her. Slowly but surely Marian becomes subsumed in the world of espionage. Belligerents lurk in every dark corner. She needs to disappear. A good story encapsulating the disruption caused by war the morals of technological secrets and super weapons and the tugs of loyalty to nation vis-à-vis loyalty to ones principles and beliefs.
Drunk : how we sipped, danced, and stumbled our way to civilization / Edward Slingerland. Author: Slingerland, Edward, 1968- author. Publisher: New York : Little, Brown & Company, 2022. -- New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2022. -- ©2021 Review by: Loveday, Robert J. Mr. on: 17/11/2023 1:42:27 PM Member Rating: What is your attitude to alcohol? A social lubricant? A manageable vice? Or a potentially dangerous tempter? Slingerland has developed a hypothesis and has taken a multidisplinary approach to argue it. Theres history, archaeology, neurology, anthropology, psychology, sociology, philosophy; you name it. So what is his hypothesis? Well not only has alcohol been a part of almost every human society since hunter-gatherer times, but that it was an essential precursor to even a driver of the formation of civilizations. By temporarily dimming our rational-calculating prefrontal cortex it opened our minds to creativity trust diplomacy negotiation and cooperation. He draws analogies with other feel-good instigators but stresses the advantages alcohol has over these. Slingerland does at least concede his last chapter to the dangers of alcohol. Although tirelessly argued from several perspectives I detected flaws in his postulations. He sometimes started with unsubstantiated premises, made many assumptions based on thin evidence, and tended to jump too quickly to conclusions. However if you wish to find justification for your tipples a read of Drunk will certainly help.
The girl who fell from the sky / Simon Mawer. Author: Mawer, Simon, author. Publisher: London : Abacus, 2013. -- ©2012 Review by: Loveday, Robert J. Mr. on: 3/11/2023 2:02:30 PM Member Rating: During World War II the British SOE its military special operations branch sent 39 women behind enemy lines. 26 of these survived the war. This is a fictionalised story of one of them. You will need to read the book to see if she was one of the survivors or not. Follow Marian Sutro half-French half-British through her recruitment her gruelling and exacting training, her parachuting into French, her work with the French resistance and finally her attempts to inveigle a key French physicist to flee from Paris to England. It is this last mission that is the most sensitive and personal to her. Before fleeing to England Marian while still a school girl established a close relationship with Clément a young scientist and friend of her brother. Clément is now a key physicist who may advance the allies research into the atomic bomb. Marian finds herself mixing a professional mission with sentiments from the past when she reunites with Clément. Entry into the world of the Resistance is a baptism of fire for Marian. There is an appropriate buildup of tension towards the conclusion. Will it end favourably for our heroes or will the forces of oppression exact a price
The dictionary people : the unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary / Sarah Ogilvie. Author: Ogilvie, Sarah, author. Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus, 2023. Review by: Loveday, Robert J. Mr. on: 30/10/2023 4:17:17 PM Member Rating: The Oxford English Dictionary the first comprehensive historical dictionary of the English language took 70 years to compile. It was begun in the 1950s and finally finished the Z volume in 1928. It was the ultimate in 19th century crowdsourcing more than a century before the internet took up this technique. As well as a small army of paid assistants sub-editors and specialists it relied on more than 3000 voluntary readers who troweled literary works for quotes and citations dating back to the first appearance of words. It is these latter readers that Sarah Ogilvie focuses on in this book. James Murray was the longest serving of several editors-in-chief during this mammoth task. Ogilvie stumbled across his diary and other records that began her research that spanned eight years. During this time she was able to trace and expound upon the lives of many of these honorary readers. Readers came from all classes a variety of backgrounds and all corners of the globe. You will be fascinated by some of their stories. You will also be given a window into life in Victorian times its morals norms and more.
The glass room / Simon Mawer. Author: Mawer, Simon, author. Publisher: London : Abacus, 2013. -- London Abacus, 2013. -- ©2013 Review by: Loveday, Robert J. Mr. on: 20/10/2023 1:47:25 PM Member Rating: This story starts slow. It was not until three-quarters through that the tension started to build. A newly married Czech couple are honeymooning in northern Italy. They meet an Austrian architect who convinces them he can build them a radically-modern dreamhome. Hence the Glass Room. Although the characters and story are entirely fictional this house actually exists and is listed as World Heritage by the UN. This is a story heavy into relationships, a love triangle, even a love quadrangle. But it is set against the backof the rise of Fascism the trauma of anti-Semitism and the coming of World War II. The protagonists Victor Liesel children and lover flee. Their friends stay. But neither can escape the claws of Nazism unscathed. The war ends. Our protagonists evaporate their fate unknown. But the Glass Room lives on in different guise. Decades later like the proverbial phoenix some of our original characters rise from the ashes their fates revealed reunited through the Glass Room. This book was shortlisted for a Man Booker. In my books not quite up to this prestigious standard. The friend who recommended it to me would disagree. Read it and see whose side you take.