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Freda Lightfoot
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Last week I enjoyed a fabulous week at the Fowey Festival of Words and Music (or the Du Maurier Festival - as it used to be called). Can't think why they would need to change such an important international name. The Festival takes place each year in early May in Fowey, Cornwall, directed by Jonathon Aberdeen, but much of the work done by local volunteers.
It was wonderful to be
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Last week I enjoyed a fabulous week at the Fowey Festival of Words and Music (or the Du Maurier Festival - as it used to be called). Can't think why they would need to change such an important international name. The Festival takes place each year in early May in Fowey, Cornwall, directed by Jonathon Aberdeen, but much of the work done by local volunteers.
It was wonderful to be
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The Hostage Queen
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Reluctant Queen
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The Queen and the Courtesan
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The Promise
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House Of Angels
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The Duchess of Drury Lane
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For All Our Tomorrows
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Kitty Little
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Watch for the Talleyman
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Manchester Pride
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Marguerite de Valois is the most beautiful woman in the French Court, and the subject of great scandal and intrigue. Margot loves Henri of Guise but is married off to the Huguenot Henry of Navarre. By this means her mother Catherine de Medici hopes to bring peace to the realm.
But within days of the wedding the streets of Paris are awash with blood in the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew. Not only is her new husband’s life in danger, but her own too as her mother and brother hold them hostage in the Louvre. Can they ever hope to escape and keep their heads? In a court rife with murder, political intrigue, debauchery, jealousy and the hunger for power, it will not be an easy task.
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| This was a strange tale, unexpected in many ways, but held my attention throughout and proved to be a fascinating insight into finding fairies at the bottom of your garden. This was a myth that gripped the nation in the early part of the twentieth ce...more | |
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| I found this book utterly gripping. Beautifully told it covers two time zones, the present and World War II. In the present we have Emilie de la Martiniéres, who becomes entangled in an unwise relationship, having inherited a home in the south of Fra...more | |
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| I love this author, and this tale based on the true story of Mary Annings who found fossilised creatures back in the nineteenth century in Lyme Regis bay. Her discovery challenged the perceived view of creation at the time, and that God could not mak...more | |
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