Murder on Campus: An Advancement of Learning by Reginald Hill (1971)

Last year I read my first Reginald Hill: A Clubbable Woman and enjoyed it tremendously but it has taken me more than a year to read the second outing of Hill's detective duo. Holm Coultram College is facing some very rough weather. First a student, Anita Swell, who had been suspended from the college because …

Review: Gandhi Benaqaab

Gandhi Benaqaab by Hansraj RahbarMy rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a brave book since many authors would shy away from exposing the 'Mahatma'. However in doing so Rahbar exposes his own prejudices. Nevertheless, it is a well-researched critique of Gandhi and his politics. First Line: Desh ki shashya shyamla bhumi par Shiv ka …

Tuesday Night Bloggers: The Sixth Simenon Omnibus

Georges Simenon, was a prolific Belgian author, most famous for his fictional commissaire of Paris' Brigade Criminelle, Jules Maigret. However, he also wrote many books which did not feature Maigret.The Sixth Simenon Omnibus contains three novels which discuss the role that sex has in people's lives - whether as a way of exhibiting their power …

Fiction and Non-Fiction

Loneliness might well be the greatest disease of human kind. Brian Moore's The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is a deeply moving book about a middle-aged woman in post-war Belfast. Living in rented rooms, dealing with the fact that there is hardly anybody concerned about her, trying to find solace in religion and struggling with alcoholism, …

Good Grief! Charlie Brown

I guess in the final analysis, millions of us follow him Charlie Brown ...millions of us cheer him on...because his many struggles represent so many of our individual struggles.To me, Brown is the most challanging colour in Bev's Color-Coded Challenge, mainly because of my apathy to the three titles that immediately spring to mind:1. The Man …