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The Cost of living by deborah levy
I love Levy’s autobiography so much and it is strange that it I do not take to her fictional writing at all. What makes what…
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Smoke and embers by john Lawton
John Lawton specialises in taking historical events and using them as a support for his writing with his Troy series focusing during and after WWII,…
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The Books of jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
I think this is probably the biggest book I have ever read at 893 pages telling the true story of Jacob Frank, a jew in…
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heart, be at peace by donal ryan
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The mischief makers by Elizabeth Gifford
This is a fictionalised account of two families – the du Maurier’s and J.M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan – and is based on…
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The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
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I haven’t had a great reading year in terms of books that I have loved or even scored 4 out of 5 but this book,…
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Set in the future when the waters have risen, The Morningside shows us a world that could be ours. Not too far away to be…
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This was a book chosen for our book group and sparked wide-ranging discussions from AI to the number of ‘Lawrences’ that we know and so…
Trying to read all the good books 