Category: Book Review

Reviewed by Michael Attard As of my writing of this review, Donna Leon has written thirty books about an Italian detective from the city of Venice, known as Commissario Guido … Read More

Reviewed by Michael Attard All Quiet on the Western FrontBy Erich Maria Remarque240 pages, Random House, 1996 (Originally 1929)ISBN-10: 0449911497; ISBN-13: 978-0449911495 On the dedication page, author Erich Maria Remarque … Read More

By Michael Attard Around the World on a Bicycle is more than a young man’s memoir covering almost two years of his life. It is an exotic adventure over mountains, … Read More

Reviewed by Michael Attard William Faulkner, the author of Light in August, was born in Mississippi in 1897. This fictional story takes place in the 1930’s. Historically, it was a … Read More

Reviewed by Michael Attard When Rain Clouds Gather By Bessie Head 186 Pages, Waveland Press, 2013 (Original 1968) ISBN-13: 978-1478607595 When Rain Clouds Gather was first published in 1968 when … Read More

By Michael Attard The story Stoner, by John Edward Williams (1922–1994), is fiction but draws from the author’s own life. A tale of humble beginnings from dirt poor farming, flowing … Read More

By Michael Attard The story is fiction, but the author, Jeanine Cummins, has grippingly brought to the fore one of the greatest social dilemmas, traumas, and moral issues of our … Read More