Private Party - Johan Gielen

Advantages: Good character dynamic, interesting cases
Disadvantages: None

...For fans of Grey?s Anatomy this is a must for you. Private Practice is an American drama show shown in England on Living TV on Thursday nights. It?s a spin off from the very popular medical drama Grey?s Anatomy. It is now in its second season. The show revolves around Dr Addison Forbes Montgomery. If you watch Grey?s Anatomy you will know that she is the ex-wife of Derek Shepherd who worked at Seattle Grace hospital with him and Meredith for a time. She is one of the top neonatal surgeons in the country and when she is offered a job by her old friend Naomi she moves out to California to begin working at a health clinic in Santa Monica. The show thus follows her move to the clinic and the new environment she finds herself in. When this show first started I have to admit that I didn?t really love it. I love the energy of Grey... Read review

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Advantages: Very enjoyable read
Disadvantages: Could it be the last?

...P D James has always been a favourite author of mine (although I admit that many years ago I thought P D James was male!). About the author Phyllis Dorothy James started writing in the mid 1950s and it wasn?t until 1962 that her book was published (Cover Her Face). She was made Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991. She lives in London and Oxford and has two children. The Private Patient This latest offering has Adam Dalgliesh and his team investigating the murder of Rhoda Gradwyn. Rhoda is an investigative journalist, who after years of living with a disfiguring and long-standing scar decides to book herself into a private clinic (Cheverell Manor) to have it removed. What could possibly go wrong?! As you would imagine in a P D James murder mystery all is not as it seems and the Cheverell Manor holds a deadly secret... Read review

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Advantages: Beautifully written, fantastic story, a very powerful ending
Disadvantages: A shocking ending

...Michael Morpurgo was born in 1943, he attended schools in London, Sussex and Canterbury. He went on to London University to study English and French, he started teaching in a primary school in Kent. It was while he was there that he discovered what he wanted to do. "We had to read the children a story every day and my lot were bored by the book I was reading. I decided I had to do something and told them the kind of story I used to tell my kids - it was like a soap opera, and they focused on it. I could see there was magic in it for them, and realised there was magic in it for me." Private Peaceful is a novel about World War 1. I am quite interested in WW1 and 2 so when I see a novel set in one of these time periods I often take a closer look? Private Thomas ("Tommo") Peaceful is recalling his childhood from those terrible... Read review

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