Jacqueline Wilson – The Story of Tracy Beaker (Book Review)

Opening Line(s): My name is Tracy Beaker. I am 10 years 2 months old. My birthday is on 8 May. It’s not fair, because that dopey Peter Ingham has his birthday then too, so we just got the one cake between us. Book Cover Blurb: Tracy is ten years old. She lives in a Children’s Home […]

Patrick Süskind – Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Book Review)

Opening Line: In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. Book Cover Blurb: His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name has been forgotten today, it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short […]