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Monday, 10 February 2020
A Reading Marathon with some Recommendations
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Since winter arrived I have found more excuses to ‘curl up with a book’. That and listening to selected titles on my trusty Audible Ap...
Monday, 3 December 2018
The Darkness and Our House
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The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson I love the Nordic Noir genre of novels and Iceland, a country I have visited, provides perfect settings fo...
Thursday, 1 November 2018
Paris Settings: Works of contemporary and historical fiction by two Master Novelists.
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Two novels, each of which features some action set in Paris , each written by one of my top 10 authors. Love is Blind by William Boyd Se...
Gone to Earth
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Gone to Earth by Mary Webb A potted bio : Mary Gladys Webb (25 March 1881 – 8 October 1927) was an English romantic novelist and po...
Thursday, 4 October 2018
Calypso, Cockroaches, Praxis
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So much reading accomplished in the past month or so, and less time to find my blogs. So, three short accounts of three books, 'yer...
Tuesday, 18 September 2018
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust - Volume One
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My second great read has caused me to rethink a statement I made in an earlier book review. I wrote that I had little time for 'magical...
A Gentleman in Moscow
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In the past month I have read two brilliant books. By my reckoning. The first took me a good while to get through. Four hundred and fift...
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