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The Remains of the Day
What the butler saw and what he got up to in the staff quarters. This rollicking roller coaster of a novel has everything; downstairs the servants can hardly keep their hands off of each other, while upstairs there are more Nazis than you get from a night in watching the History Channel. Think Carry On Butler meets The Odessa File and you won't even come close to the levels of excitement and action available between these covers. Now a major motion picture, pitting Superman (Christopher Reeve) against his most fearsome adversary, Dr Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins).
Neil Rennick
Jane Eyre
The body of an innocent schoolgirl, Helen Burns, is found in her dormitory. An elderly aunt is found dead in her bed. What is evil? What turns a young country girl into a homicidal psychopath and pyromaniac? Nature? Nurture? A traumatic childhood? Demon possession? "My dear children . . . this girl is - a liar!" As Jane Eyre seeks to justify herself in a chillingly nonchalant first-person narrative, projecting the crazed fantasies of her deranged imagination on to ever more improbable characters and events, from non-existent gypsies and invented lunatic wives in attics to voices heard from a distance of several miles, the delusional, manipulative governess leaves mayhem in her wake. The hand that rocks the cradle indeed . . . Thank heaven for CRB checks.
David Silverman
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