I decided to try and work my way through the Narnia series and started with the Magician’s Nephew as recommended by CS Lewis. I got about a quarter of the way through it and just couldnt get into it. I am sure the Narnia series is very good but it is not for me.
Back Cover Blurb:
NARNIA….where Talking Beasts walk….where a witch waits….where a new world is about to be born.
On a daring quest to save a life, two friends are hurled into another world, where an evil sorceress seeks to enslave them. But then the lion Aslan’s song weaves itself into the fabric of a new land, a land that will be known as Narnia. And in Narnia, all things are possible….

Twelve terrifc stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus. His home city of Edinburgh is not just the tarten tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban conurbation with the full range of criminals and their victims – blackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It is a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, accident and long-hidden jealousy