The Bad Book Affair is a happy book. There is a mystery in the plot but that seems to be a filler to the various challenges faced by Israel Armstrong in living in the northernmost coast of the north of the north part of Northern Ireland.I have not read other books in the series but it did not se...
Avete presente quei commenti in copertina scritti per chissà quanti millemila euro da giornali importanti, come il New York Times etc. etc.? Vorrei dire, quei commenti che ci prendono per il culo 'Scrittura magistrale, una storia da togliere il fiato' e lusinghe varie? Ecco, io mica ci credo mai ...
This series of novels by Ian Sansone tell of Israel Armstrong, an agonizingly self-questioning, almost-30-year-old London man who moves to a remote village in Northern Ireland. Israel lives in a not-yet-converted chicken coop on a farm (a home he doesn't really like) and drives the book mobile (...
A warm, humane, and sharply observed tale of small town life that is by equal turns hilarious and moving. Big Davey Jones is coming home. He's been gone almost 20 years now, but nobody's forgotten him. Davey's a local hero -- his miracle birth as the seventh son of a seventh son brought fame to t...
Like a – moustached, teetotal and tweed-clad – Plantagenet ruler he had by now established almost entire control of the Blakeney Hotel and its staff, who were happy ferrying books, and paper and pens, and typewriter ribbons, and envelopes, and sealing wax, and blotters and all his other necessary...