Tuesday 7 February 2012

ghosts and drummers

read the nazi seance by arthur magida the story of a jewish psychic in hitlers court ,vivid investigation of a world about to be destroyed i
t told the story of a austrian stage magician fortune teller who associated himself with a rising political party the nazis in the 1920s and eventually paid a terrible price not long after they came to power

the curious case of the clockwork man by mark hodder an alternative steam punk adventure of
buton and swinburne mark hodder demonstrates more wit , imagination and outright humour in this one book than i have read in 100 other steampunk novels involving time travelling president rasputin, medieval ghosts swearing parrot telegraphs, rotorships and the tichborne claimant set in a realistic plotted alternative london in the days of king albert a good read for all of its 461 pages

the tin drum gunther grass the great novel of interwar germany returned out to be quite good and told the story of the perenial three year old oscar and his tin drum observing germany fall and fall
the english ghost peter ackroyd pleasing fireside book of the english ghost

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