Category Archives: travel

The star of this book is the treacherous Skeleton Coast where the action takes place at two different periods in history, in the 1950s and during WWII. Geoffrey Peace is the skipper of a large fishing boat called the Etosha who works in these unpredictable waters. When visiting a friend in Swakopmund, a strange incidentContinue reading “A Twist of Sand by Geoffrey Jenkins”

This is a real page turner. An old wooden ship is trapped in the Antarctic ice. It set sail from Argentina to the Falkland Islands two years after the war between the UK and Argentina was over. Why was this, what was the plan, and how did it end up embedded in the ice inContinue reading “Isvik by Hammond Innes”

Karl Braun is a cultured German gentleman who works as a piano tuner in the London of the mid 1960s. Many of his fellow emigres assume like them he fled to England to avoid the Nazis. In the summer of 1965 he courts one woman, is pursued by another, and attends classical concerts. The newspapersContinue reading “The Glass Pearls by Emeric Pressburger”

This is a fine read, a really good story, set in 1934 in which we’re introduced to the character called Ginger, who’s a really imaginative thinker and notices things that Biggles, Smyth, and Algy don’t. Biggles is forced down off the Norfolk coast by bad weather and as always, stumbles across something strange going on.Continue reading “Biggles and the Black Peril”

Nicolas Whistler is a young man who lives in digs in London and spends most of his spare cash on his car. He has a girlfriend that he rather likes and a job he doesn’t like. He regularly goes down to Bournemouth to see his mum and her friend who both live in the sameContinue reading “The Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson”