Category: UK
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I can remember the time when this book is set – the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. I was about thirteen years old and used…
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This must be the most plotless, but definitely not pointless, book I have ever read. It is our choice, picked out of a hat of…
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The Radlett family are large, mad and very exciting. There’s the Bolter who gave birth to Fanny the narrator and then ran away; Aunt Emily…
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A poet and novelist looks back on her life as a penniless author and describes her transformation into someone who lives for writing, who will…
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In the early 1800s John Lacroix returns home from fighting in Spain. His injuries are not obvious, but injured he is and exhausted. His housemaid…
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Hadley is a writer who majors on family life, sometimes historical, always domestic focusing on relationships. They tend to be what I call ‘quiet’ novels…
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One of the last books we read in book club was Pride and Prejudice, although I misremembered and read Sense and Sensibility instead, and I…
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I have always wanted to work in a bookshop and on several occasions wondered whether to apply to our local chain over Christmas time. I…
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Is it possible to have a cozy spy novel just like the category in crime fiction? I think it might be and this book would…
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