Archives by Tag 'Spanish'
Review: ‘The Prince of Mist’ by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
By oldenglishrose - Last updated: Monday, July 11, 2011
Usually, I never go anywhere without a book, but on the recent bank holiday Monday I inexplicably found myself in Bournemouth with three and a half hours to kill before that evening’s Bellowhead concert and no book with which to attack them. It’s probably because I travel everywhere by train so I’m used to needing at [...]
Review: ‘The Shadow of the Wind’ by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
By oldenglishrose - Last updated: Friday, August 20, 2010
Barcelona, 1945-just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother’s face. To console his only child, Daniel’s widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the [...]