Like the Flowing River - Paulo Coelho

The Fifth Mountain - Paulo Coelho

This is the first of Paulo Coelho s books that I read. This Brazilian author was not known to me but was highly recommended by a friend who thought that I might enjoy his books as much as he did. Apparently, the author has sold over 56 million books around the world. I chose to read this particular book first as I was intrigued by the fact that the book is based upon the life, or at least, one particular part of the life, of Elijah, the fiery prophet from the Old Testament of the Bible. Although the book is based upon the Biblical account of Elijah s life, the story is, unsurprisingly, considerably expanded to become a novel of around 240 pages. It follows Elijah as ...

The Fifth Mountain - Paulo Coelho

This is the first of Paulo Coelho s books that I read. This Brazilian author was not known to me but was highly recommended by a friend who thought that I might enjoy his books as much as he did. Apparently, the author has sold over 56 million books around the world. I chose to read this particular book first as I was intrigued by the fact that the book is based upon the life, or at least, one particular part of the life, of Elijah, the fiery prophet from the Old Testament of the Bible. Although the book is based upon the Biblical account of Elijah s life, the story is, unsurprisingly, considerably expanded to become a novel of around 240 pages. It follows Elijah as ...

The Witch of Portobello - Paulo Coelho

Paul Coelho was born in Brazil in 1949. He always wanted an artistic career but his father was an engineer and thought his ideas of being a writer were a sign of mental instability. When he was only 17 his father put him in a mental institution for electroconvulsive therapy twice. He was sent there again after he became involved with a theatre group and was working as a journalist. Despite this difficult start to his career Coelho has become a worldwide best seller. His first book was written after he had walked the Santiago de Compostello pilgrimage trial in Northern Spain, the book was called 'The Pilgrimage'. His next book was 'The Alchemist' which was not an immediate success on ...

The Witch of Portobello - Paulo Coelho

Paul Coelho was born in Brazil in 1949. He always wanted an artistic career but his father was an engineer and thought his ideas of being a writer were a sign of mental instability. When he was only 17 his father put him in a mental institution for electroconvulsive therapy twice. He was sent there again after he became involved with a theatre group and was working as a journalist. Despite this difficult start to his career Coelho has become a worldwide best seller. His first book was written after he had walked the Santiago de Compostello pilgrimage trial in Northern Spain, the book was called 'The Pilgrimage'. His next book was 'The Alchemist' which was not an immediate success on ...

The Witch of Portobello - Paulo Coelho

The Brazilian author Paulo Coelho (born in 1947) has been after me for a while, I can t enter a German bookshop without seeing piles of his books, all in the bestseller section, when browsing on the British or German Amazon, it doesn t take long until I come across one of his books, and dooyoo has listed 16 of his books for which 40 reviews have been written up to now. At last I ve surrendered, I didn t buy his first and most successful novel, The Alchemist, though, but The Witch of Portobello because I ve been to Portobello Road and I like books set in London. Sherine Khalil, aka Athena, aka The Witch, was born in Transsylvania to a single Gypsy mother who left her ...

The Witch of Portobello - Paulo Coelho

The Brazilian author Paulo Coelho (born in 1947) has been after me for a while, I can t enter a German bookshop without seeing piles of his books, all in the bestseller section, when browsing on the British or German Amazon, it doesn t take long until I come across one of his books, and dooyoo has listed 16 of his books for which 40 reviews have been written up to now. At last I ve surrendered, I didn t buy his first and most successful novel, The Alchemist, though, but The Witch of Portobello because I ve been to Portobello Road and I like books set in London. Sherine Khalil, aka Athena, aka The Witch, was born in Transsylvania to a single Gypsy mother who left her ...