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Natasha Solomons - Mr Rosenblums List
Release Date: March 2010
Pages: 320
Publisher: Hodder General Publishing
Your life is at an end. Everything that existed for you is no longer.Reality is replaced by something foreign, a shadow of the security you once felt. Life was about living as you pleased. Now, your life is controlled by the dictates of the bureaucracy. Tell me, how do you survive that? Natasha Solomons will show you in this enchanting tale delicately that is crafted with the tip of the proverbial sword.
In an emotional journey of change, love, and life, this novel will leave you exhausted and on the ropes, but forever wanting to surge forward.Natasha Solomons has said this story is “about marriage, friendship and fitting in”, I have found this and more, a true spring of hope. The tale is also about the will to survive against the odds and learning that triumph will materialises from within. We should all aspire to the courage, determination and strength displayed by the protagonist Jack Rosenblum.
The trail begins in 1937, at a time when Jews were banned from professions of dentistry, accounting, teaching and medicine (thank our lucky stars this was not permanent or worldwide - since 1937 there have been not less than 46 Jewish Medicine Nobel prize winners). Jack and Sadie Rosenblum make a decision to move from their homeland, which has become increasingly violent and bigoted, to a country that will offer them sanctuary. This new land will provide a fresh life, a place where dreams of freedom and belonging can be realised. Is it possible to achieve this though when that land is also tainted by a preconceived notion?
Jack Rosenblum may be lacking in stature however he more than adequately compensates in will, grit, determination, all of those virtuous traits that make successful leaders. Sadie, his wife is a staunch, demur and a sometimes reluctant supporter. She balances and complements Jacks character in the same way as the sunrise starts the day.
Mother Teresa once said that “loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty”. The Rosenblum’s struggle through this poverty and, unwittingly, in attempting to become the ideal English citizens, realise their dreams.
This book is for lovers of riveting drama. It is also for anybody interested in reading of the frailty of the human condition and the ability of the oppressed to overcome and thrive. It is a lesson for us all in humanity.
Do not hesitate to purchase this book and watch how Natasha Solomon combines tears, laughter and exhilaration to form this masterpiece that depicts one families search for belonging in a world that has become foreign.
Clive Cussler - Corsair
Author: Clive Cussler & Jack du Brul
Over five novels, Clive Cussler has brought readers into the world of the Oregon, a seemingly dilapidated ship packed with sophisticated equipment, and captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo. And now the Oregon and its crew face their biggest challenge yet.
Corsairs are pirates, and pirates come in many different varieties. There are the pirates who fought off the Barbary Coast in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the contemporary pirates who infest the waters of Africa and Asia and the pirates... who look like something else.
When the U. S. Secretary of State's plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Cabrillo to search for her, and the misgivings are well founded. The crew locates the plane - but the Secretary of State has vanished. It turns out Libya's new foreign minister has other plans for the conference, ones Cabrillo cannot let happen. But what does it all have to do with a 200-year-old naval battle, and the centuries-old Islamic scrolls that the Libyans seem so determined to find?
Long Lost – Harlan Coben (Myron Bolitar Series)
Release date: March 2009
Pages: 384
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Publication: Country USA
If the stories in the newspapers of the woes of the economy are driving you to despair, then its time you picked up Long Lost. This new Myron Bolitar novel by Coben will take you from that mundane reality and put you on a high that will rival your most intensive binge on your current vice.
This new Bolitar novel comes after a 3 year hiatus, the ninth in the series and for the first time our Sports Agent crossed with Private Detective is taking his exploits overseas, this time not working for his clients but on his own past.
A number of times after picking myself up from the floor and recovering from sore sides from laughing and the weird looks from the people in the Coffee shop my breath was taken away with the twists in the plot and the body blows delivered with the finesse of skilled martial artist. This is another book of mastery from an expert thriller writer.
Our journey with Myron starts with a simple goodbye to a current love and a re-cast of a previous relationship with the exquisite Terese Collins, an ex television presenter with a remarkable past. Myron finally learns about that past and how it is going to affect his future – maybe he should not have followed that advice from Win his best friend and strongest supporter and stayed at home rather than heading on the first flight to France. Myron has always been a sucker for the tender heart.
Coben makes us question who it is we really need to fear, the terrorists or those that are trying to stop terrorism, I’m sure Bolitar also questions that every time he remembers the torture that he may have gone through!
I really enjoy the way Coben uses today’s technology, Google Earth and GPS rather than the futuristic sometime nonsensical James Bond gadgetry – although I must say I do love Aston Martins.
I highly recommend this book and I’m sure it will leave you panting for the next instalment of action, and running back to the store to get the previous books in Bolitar’s life if you have not yet read them.
Gone Tomorrow – Lee Child (Jack Reacher Series)
Release date: April 2009
Pages: 396
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
Publication: Country UK
Gone Tomorrow, will be just that, in the bookshop, I recommend that you grab a copy of this story as soon as you possibly can.
Lee Child (Jim Grant) has written his thirteenth book in the Jack Reacher series and is still continuing in his immutable page turning style and sharp, to the point, fast paced story telling. Most of his other bestselling books have received awards and this book will be no different.
Jack Reacher the former United States Army Military Police Major finds himself up against Al Qaeda, anybody that has come to know Reacher in the past Novels will know that he has little patience for the bad guys and quickly dispatches them with his own form of justice.
A true thriller writer is excited about building suspense and drawing the reader into the plot and sub plot, the more talented they are at achieving this the better the end result is.
Lee Child manages to produce both of these in Gone Tomorrow, written in the first person the reader can almost feel Reacher’s pain and frustration as more and more of the plot is revealed.
The story begins in a subway carriage in New York in the early hours of the morning and forces Reacher into a place where he has to question his own actions. Did he make the right decision? Of course the fans know that he always does.
Our journey challenges our beliefs surrounding terrorism and just what is the fine line between the terrorists and those that oppose them and the atrocities that go hand in hand in the terrorist circle.
Up against all the law enforcement agencies, NYPD, FBI Reacher again finds himself in the cold with a little help apart from those that have come to know and in him.
We recommend that you turn the phone off and reserve the weekend because when you start you will not want to put the book down.