The Secret Annexe: from The diary of Anne Frank

Author	Lucy Grealy
ISBN	0060569662

I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor...

Author	Anna Seghers
ISBN	3746651530

“Transit” is the perfect title for this masterpiece of refugee fiction!

There are so many layers of meaning in that short word, all symbolically integrated in the straightforward, realistic story, mirroring Anna Seghers’ own odyssey during the Second World War.

The most...

Author	Cherie Bennett
ISBN	0698119738

In one moment Nicole Burns's life changes forever. The sound of gunfire at an Anne Frank exhibit, the panic, the crowd, and Nicole is no longer Nicole. Whiplashed through time and space, she wakes to find herself a privileged Jewish girl living in German-occupied Paris during World War II. No more Internet...

Author	Franz Kafka
ISBN	1494712083

There is another review in Arabic after this review - مراجعتي بالانجليزية تليها مراجعة بالعربية
It is the temporal gap between the present and the past which not tangible,
The spatial gap,between the north and the south,..
the gap between the...

Author	Hunter S. Thompson
ISBN	0141022434

High priest of hedonism and godfather of gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson was renowned for his counterculture masterpiece Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which described his chemical-addled adventures in 1970s America. Taken from Thompson's brilliantly entertaining autobiography, Kingdom...

Author	Albert Camus
ISBN	0141022140

I’ve been meaning to read Albert Camus for years! You know how it is. There’s an author you know you should read but just never get around to it. I think I looked at The Outsider a few years ago and decided it was a bit impenetrable. I also have trouble understanding the nuances of existentialism (although...

Author	Nick Hornby
ISBN	0141022515

A short, light read by way of a change; and I haven’t read Nick Hornby for a while.

The first story concerns a boy’s “first time” and his life as a frustrated/frustrating 15 year old. He makes an unexpected discovery which involves his newly acquired video recorder which will eventually...