The Man with the Miraculous Hands by Joseph Kessel

The Man with the Miraculous Hands by Joseph Kessel

I’m sure many readers would be aware of the courageous acts and legacy of Oscar Schindler; indeed, his story was made into a major film by Steven Spielberg in 1993 and brought not only Schindler’s…

The Lodger by Helen Scarlett

The Lodger by Helen Scarlett

Gothic literature would, I imagine for some, be a genre confined to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has always continued, albeit predominantly in the background of the preponderance of mainstream fiction.  However, there…

Smelling the Breezes/On Travel

Smelling the Breezes/On Travel

When Smelling the Breezes: A Journey through the High Lebanon in 1957 by Ralph and Molly Izzard, arrived on my doorstep I wasn’t prepared for such an amazing journey, not just through the 300-mile walk along…