Iam currently reading Michael McIntyre's life and laughing Book. I loved Michael McIntyre before i read this book and even more now And i'm only half way through!Michael reveals all in his remarkably honest and hilarious autobiography Life and Laughing. His showbiz roots, his appalling attempts to attract the opposite sex, his fish-out-of-water move from public to state school and his astonishing journey from selling just one ticket at the Edinburgh Festival to selling half a million tickets on his last tour. Michael’s story is riveting, poignant, romantic and above all very, very funny. It is so well written that you actually get pulled in to the life story rather than just chuckle at interesting anecdotes. The book maps Macintyre's early life with his talented gag-writing father (for Kenny Everett no less) and glamorous mother through the trials and tribulations of a marriage break-up and time split between 2 families with his sister. It was nice to find about the 'real' Michael McIntyre behind the stage version and that such a seemingly confident man struggles just as much as the rest of us! Michael describes well the relationships he has with his family Especially his grandmother. Even though I knew that McIntyre was going to succeed there is a point in the book that I was so caught up in it (when he's crying at the Edinburgh Gala with his wife) that I had to remind myself that I already knew that everything would turn out alright in the end! I love reading this and i would give it a 5* rating. It is by far the most amusing book i have read! I definatley would recommed it to anyone, Especially Michael McIntyre fans!

Torment by Lauren Kate

I have just finished reading Torment by lauren kate, this is the second novel in the addictive fallen series. Once i had started reading it i didnt stop until i had finished it! It took Lucinda an eternity to find her beloved angel, Daniel.But he waited for her. Now they are forced apart again, to protect Luce form the outcasts- Immortals who want her dead.During their seperation luce learns about her mysterious past lives spent with daniel, Finding him, falling devestatingly in love with him and then bursting into flames because her mortal body cannot handle the amount of love and history between them. But the more she discovers , the more she suspects that daniel is hiding something. What if daniels version of the past isnt true? Is it really their destiny to be toghether? Or is luce actually meant to be with someone else?

Torment picks up where Fallen left off. Daniel and Cam are working together and implementing a truce in order to keep Luce safe for 18 days. Daniel takes Luce to a boarding school in California that is NOTHING like Sword & Cross. Shoreline is sunny, warm, and lush. It is a school for Nephilim and she is a bit of a celebrity. She easily makes friends and fits right in. Despite fitting in and making new friends, however, Luce is separated from Daniel for the 18 days and she misses him desperately,struggling against the rules that he puts on her. She really comes into her own and questions this love that is ‘destined’ and chafes at some of the things Daniel does and says – like saying that she has to stay on campus, or expecting her to follow his word 100% for her own safety.

As new characters were introduced and as you learned more about them, I grew to love them. Luce was still someone I could admire. She really grew into herself and was forced to face some hard truths. Daniel was off being the protective brooding angel. The setting was so pretty and beautifully described. I also loved that there was never a lull in the plot.I would give this book a 5* Rating And I would strongly reccomend this book to anyone. I cannot wait for the third book in the series , Passion.I have completley fallen in love with this series!
 To watch the trailers for Fallen and torment click here http://www.fallenbooks.co.uk/videos.html  :D

Alone on a wide wide sea By Michael Morpurgo

Iam currently reading Alone on a wide wide sea by michael morpurgo. It is a novel About an Elderley Man who starts writing about his life so that people would know that he existed after he died because he had no know family excpet for His older sister kitty, Who before they where seperated After WWII Gave him a key which he promised to keep until they where re-united.This was what he called His lucky key.Arthur was shipped to Australia and Kitty Was sent to Canada.
The story is told in two parts,
The story begins being told by six year old Arthur, on a ship full of orphaned children, being shipped of to Australia. Arthur had been seperated from his older sister, Kitty, who was being shipped of to Canada with other children. On the ship, Arthur becomes friends with ten year old Marty. When they arrived in Australia, the children were driven to a working farm, where they were almost worked to death. After around four years, Arthur and Marty make a dash for freedom and run away from the mean, cruel farmer, Mr Bacon. Whilst on the run with the farmers horse, Big Black Jack, they are discovered by an Australian Tribe and are taken to live with Aunty Megs, who owns an orphaned animal sanctury. Aunty Megs looked after the boys until they got to around the age of fourteen and sixteen, when she sent them out to work. The boys got jobs at a boat yard, living in one of the ship's cabins. Years later, the boat company began to go down hill and the boy's wages became less and less. Marty began to get depressed over this and started drinking. One night, he had had to much to drink and started jumping from boat to boat. Suddenly, he fell in, and was unable to get back up again, and unfortunately died in hospital. Eventually, the company got closed down and Arthur went back to live with Aunty Megs. She was getting very old by then and soon after she died to. Then Arthur was left homeless, so he set out to work again. At one point, Arthur had to go into hospital, and fell in love with one of the nurses, Zeeta. In the end of part one, Arthur and Zeeta got married and had a baby daughter, Allie


Part two begins when Allie was at about the age of 16, and her and her father had made huge plans to sail to England to find Arthur's long lost sister, Kitty Hobhouse. Near to the begining of the journey, Arthur dies and Kitty is left to make the journey on her own. Half way through the journey, Allie has to quit the journey and end it somewhere else as herself and the ship were battered. When she ended the journey, she was met by her family and also a new member, her Aunty Kitty!


This is the fourth time i have read this Book And I will probably read it again and again. Michael Morpurgo Gives a gripping, life affirming novel which charts the journey from childhood to maturity, from innocence to expirience And from loneliness to love.
I would give this book a 5* Rating And would recommend it to anyone of any age! :)

Out of the ashes by Michael Morpurgo

Becky Morley is 13 and lives with her parents on their farm in Cornwall. Becky lives a really comfortable lifestyle. She has her own horse and rides regularly in the woods around the farm where she lives. She has a dad any girl would be proud of. Her dad is her hero and can do no wrong in her eyes. He spends his days in the fields and in the dairy with the cattle, the sheep and the pigs that the family rear. In fact, if Becky were to complain about anything in her life it would be her mother, who moaned at her a lot and was always pushing her to try harder and better herself.

Becky has a real love of animals living on a farm is a great place to be. She has her own animals to take care of. Not only does she feed and clean them out, she also helps with the lambing of her flock and when her favorite sheep gives birth to twin lambs she is thrilled, especially as one of them...'Little Josh' needs hand rearing. Life is wonderful for Becky, wandering around the farm with Little Josh at her feet she wonders if life can get much better.
When foot and mouth breaks out on a pig farm, hundreds of miles from where they live, Becky's parents are seriously worried. Becky's life however goes on as normal.
When the disease is found on a neighbouring farm Becky is forced to face the nightmare that is creeping around the corner. Becky can only hope and pray that this terrible tragedy will pass her and her family by. She watches as her neighbours herd is slaughtered and then burned. She clings to the animals that mean so much to her and hopes for a miracle.
This Book Was amazing and it was really moving. It is in the form of a diary written by the character Becky, although she is only a child She tells the story in a pure and honest way, taking the hand of the reader and sharing with them the delights of the farm and the misery of the foot and mouth outbreak.

I would Give This Book 5*'s And i would recommend it to anyone of any age !