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Young
Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill by Michael Shelden covers the World War II
prime minister's early career (1901-1936) with emphasis on his contributions
to building a modern navy, his experimentation with radical social reforms, and his lesser-known romantic pursuits. The
research is solid and the writing is accomplished, but this was not my favorite
book about Churchill.
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Six Days by
Harland Corbin takes place six years after Professor Jake Fisher watches
Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. When Sanders learns of his
rival's death and attends the funeral, he discovers that Natalie is not the
woman he remembers and feels compels to search for answers. The book is a well-honed, professional formula
with almost too m any coincidences involving his alma
mater and current employer.
Evening at Five by
Gail Goodwin, a three-time National Book Award nominee and bestselling
author of eleven critically acclaimed novels was described as “a literary
jewel, a bittersweet novella of absence and presence and the mysterious gap
between them.” Seven months after the unexpected death of her husband, Rudy,
Christina reflects on almost thirty years of life together, the bond between
them, and her grief, from the perspective of their long-time ritual of getting
together every evening at five o'clock to share drinks and their mutual love of
language and music.
A Delicate Truth
by John Le Carré is vintage British spy craft. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife,
is mounted on Gibraltar to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms
buyer. The operation is so secret that
even the Minister’s personal private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for
it. Three years later, a disgraced Special Forces Soldier posthumously forces
Toby to ask if Wildlife was as success as reported or a human tragedy
that was ruthlessly covered up?
