This Summer Read (Part 2)
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7) The Time Machine (H.H. Wells / 1895)
A Victorian scientist propels himself into the year AD 802,701 and finds himself among the Eloi, an elfin species that appears to live in a world free of suffering, but in tunnels beneath their paradise lurk the sinister Morlocks. When the scientist’s time machine vanishes, he knows what he has to do to return to his era.
8.) Doctor Who?: Revenge of the Juddon (Terrance Dicks / 2008)
A modern take on the same theme, time-traveller Doctor Who visits a castle in Scotland. The castle disappears, leaving just a hole in the ground. The Doctor realizes it is the work of the Juddon, ruthless intergalactic mercenary space police plotting to take over the world. The Doctor Who books are a tie-in with the very popular British TV series of the same name.
9) Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie / 1934)
Detective Hercule Poirot’s little grey cells whirr away as he untangles the mystery of an American tycoon found dead in his train compartment with a dozen stab wounds.
10) A quite belief in Angels (R.J.Ellory / 2007)
Joseph Vaughan is a teenager when a string of girls from his community are murdered. Ten years later, one of his neighbours is found dead, with articles taken from the dead girls. The killings resume. Who is the real killer? A bestseller on Amazon, it is this summer’s crime title smash hit.
11) The Alexander Trilogy: Fire from heaven; The Persian Boy; Funeral Games (Mary Renault / 1969 / 1972/1981)
Alexander the Great said, “It is a lovely thing to live the courage, and die leaving an everlasting fame.” Mary Renault’s trilogy is a superb fictional account of the man who spoke those words. It takes the reader on a real-life adventures story that moves from the rugged mountains of Macedonia, via Persia and Egypt, to the Indus. Along the way, we meet many intriguing characters, not least of whom is Alexander’s formidable mother, Olympias.
12) The Other Boleyn Girl (Philippa Gregory / 2002)
Nothing can come between sisters like a kingdom. Mary Boleyn becomes the mistress of King Henry VIII. When he tires of her, she sets out to school her sister, Anne, to take her place. A novel of high drama, politics and passion, It won the Parker Romantic Novel of the Year award (2002) and was recently made into a movie starring Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. Philippa Gregory’s other Tudor titles include The Queen’s Fool, The Virgin’s Lover, The Boleyn inheritance, and the Other Queen (to be published this august).
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