Books Review February 2012
Up The Wooden Hill by Jill Schaefer is a 180-page historical memoir divided over 32 chapters with 32 small black and white photos. The book is about growing up in England and Germany before, during and after WWII, featuring two tales seen through different viewpoints. Stories of love, war, tears, laughter, families, friends and foes. [...]
Books Review January 2012
HAPPY 2012! A new year and a new opportunity to rethink old ways. This month’s book review recommendation is Richard Branson’s latest book Screw Business As Usual! I had the pleasure of working for Virgin Merchandising International in the mid 80’s out in the San Fernando Valley as an administrative assistant in the art department [...]
Books Review December 2011
A Coward If I Return, A Hero If I Fall, by Neil Richardson on O’Brien Press. THIS BOOK is a remarkable collection of veterans’ stories gathered from soldiers’ families, military records, diaries, documents and letters. It shows just how significant Irish involvement truly was in WWI. From 1914-1918 there was 200,000 Irishmen from all parts [...]
Books Review November 2011
THE FIRM – The Troubled Life of the HOUSE OF WINDSOR by Penny Junor. Published 2005 by Thomas Dunne Books – St Martin’s Press – NY Penny Junor is a top London journalist who has covered the royal family for over 25 years. She is the author of previous biographies of both the Prince and [...]
Books Review October 2011
Union Jack this month welcomes our new Book Reviewer Lorraine Chambers. We hope you will enjoy Lorraine’s work as much as we do! Book Review of The 1926 Miners’ Lockout – Meaning of Community in the Durham Coalfield by Hester Barron through Oxford University Press (2010). The Miners’ Lockout book is so packed with details [...]
Books Review June 2011
A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth IN ASHWORTH’S novel, it didn’t take me long to realize that the main character, Annie, was a little unhinged, and unfortunately for Lucy and Neil she moves in next door to them. What follows is an uncomfortable account of a neighbor getting too close for comfort. Annie, a [...]
Books Review May 2011
Our Man in Orlando, By Hugh Hunter I NEVER realized that working for the British Consulate could be such an interesting vocation. The Author, Hugh Hunter spent a decade working for the British Consulate in Florida and offers up important insights into the work that is involved. Aside from aiding tourists in trouble and issuing [...]
Books Review April 2011
One Day By: David Nicholls THIS friendship started as a one-night stand and continued over a twenty year period. The story picks up on the same date each year, chronicling the relationship of Dex and Em through the late eighties, nineties and the millennium. David Nicholls did a superb job bringing all three decades back [...]
Books Review March 2011
Booky Wook 2 by Russell Brand MOST of us here in the US know Russell Brand as that stick tall, weird hairdo guy who’s been in a couple of movies and apparently caused a Barcelona lightning storm back in Blighty. We know him as the paparazzi ninja, fighting comic who recently became even more infamous [...]
Books Review February 2011
Mr Stink by: David Walliams Illustrations by: Quentin Blake I WANTED to change it up a bit this month so decided to explore the world of contemporary British children’s books. I was hoping to find the next Harry Potter or Nanny Mcphee but the one that I returned to, the one that kept calling my [...]
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