Book Reviews 2011 | Roseland Online

The Levelling Sea – Philip Marsden

Written by Roseland author, Philip Marsden, this book is described as “the story of a Cornish Haven in the Age of Sail”. Illustrated with photos, engravings and maps and with extensive notes...

Oxford Dictionary of Saints – David Farmer

Just updated, this book details the lives and good deeds of over 1700 saints, including our own Saints Cuby, Mawes and Petroc. The reasons for sainthood are many and varied, although it...

Muhammad – A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan A C Brown

One of over 200 titles on everything from Advertising to the United Nations via Dinosaurs and Scotland. Covering Muhammad’s life, the history of Islam and its role in the modern world, this...

Midsummer Night In The Workhouse by Diana Athill

Short stories originally published between 1958 and 1973 in a range of journals including “Glamour” magazine and “Gentlemen’s Quarterly”. Persephone Books reprints largely forgotten works from the early 20th century. Mostly written...

Great Food – A series of short books by twenty authors

This series brings together cooks, food writers and others not particularly known for their interest in food. There are recipes and context from people as diverse as Samuel Pepys and (of course)...

One of our Thursdays is Missing – Jasper Fforde

In this latest book by Jasper Fforde, a sequel to “First Among Sequels”, Thursday Next (literary detective) goes missing. It’s up to the “written” Thursday to track her down and get Book...

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith

Romance is in the air, and not just for Phuti Radiphuti, whose wedding is on the horizon. His fiancée, Mma Makutsi needs all 97{c8c3b3d140ed11cb7662417ff7b2dc686ffa9c2daf0848ac14f76e68f36d0c20} of her organisational skills to ensure everything runs...