Pennyworth Books

Charlie Ford Meets Secret Agent Man
by J.D. Tynan
A Better Be Write Publisher (2007)
ISBN 0977197158
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (4/07)

Thanks to author J.D. Tynan, I was actually able to enjoy a flight across the United States because I had this book in my hands. By the way, this flight was full of traveling junior high school kids… and I don’t like kids.

Anyway, from the first page Tynan had me hooked. It is important to note that Charlie Ford is a woman. She is a pretty tough woman. The story begins with Charlie being fired from another nanny position. She seems to have a problem with spoiled rich kids getting the best of her. Unwilling to give up she takes another nanny position for a twelve-year-old girl who is the daughter of a movie star dad. The daughter initially seems like every other spoiled brat, but Charlie senses that she…

The Vengeance Trap is an action-filled, entertaining novel with an interesting twistcontroversial protagonists.

The story revolves around two main charactersIRA ammunitions-buyer Kathleen OToole and modern-day pirate Omar Jabri. In spite of their cultural differences, several elements bond themtheir painful pasts filled with family tragedy, their dreams of revenge, and their passion for dangerous adventure.

The story encompasses over a decade as we see Kathleen and Omar trying to maintain a normal?family life while dealing with their secretand very deadlycareers, and see their sons grow into two very different individualsone close to his Irish origins, the other to his Muslim ones. Bank robberies, stolen diamonds, secret arms deals gone wrong, bombings, and crossing the Zimbabwe forests are some of the struggles endured by the protagonists. But how far will they go to achieve their goals, and at what expense? Will love conquer in the end?

Because of its mainstream elements and controversial protagonists, this…

Book Review:

Rita Nath Keshari. The Postcolonial Encounter: India In the Bristish Imagination.
Pondicherry: Busy Bee Books, 2005, Pages 223, Price Rs. 250/-, Euro 15/-. ISBN 81-87619-11-2

Rita Nath Keshari is a creative geniuspoet, historian, critic, journalist, and teacherwith over 700 publications to her credit. The Postcolonial Encounter: India in the British Imagination is a critique of novels about India written by British and other Western writers during 1939-1989. Keshari re-visits the Raj with a sense of history and contemporaneity, scrutinizing certain metaphors and symbols? that recur in India-centric fiction of Rudyard Kipling, E.M. Forster, John Masters, Paul Scott, J.G. Farrell, Edward Thompson, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and others. With a view to seeing how postcolonial India appears to the British literary imagination, Keshari chooses five different aspects for a detailed study.

In the first chapter, Postcolonial British Fiction About India,?she seeks to explore the continuation and mutation?of colonialism during and after the eclipse…