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Cynthia Sally Haggard

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Born and raised in Surrey, England, CYNTHIA SALLY HAGGARD has lived in the United States for twenty-nine years. She has had four careers: violinist, cognitive scientist, medical writer and novelist. Why does she write historical novels? Because she has been reading them with great enjoyment since she was a child. Because she has a great imagination and a love of history that won't go away. And because she has an annoying tendency to remember trivial details of the past and to treat long-dead people as if they were more real than those around her.

Cynthia's biggest influence was her grandmother, Stephanie Treffry, who had a natural story-telling ability. As a widow in 1970s Britain, Grandma Stephanie didn't drive a car, so would spend time wa...more


THE BLACK VELVET GOWN by Catherine Cookson



My grandmother, Stephanie Treffry, was a great admirer of Catherine Cookson, and so I picked up this novel to try and find out what she liked so much about this writer.



Like Norah Lofts, another British best-seller, Catherine Cookson’s novels are tied to a particular place, in her case the mining and fishing areas of the north-east around Durham and Tyneside. So it is no surprise that this nov... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.78 · 101 ratings · 38 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors
Thwarted Queen: A Saga abou...
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
One Seed Sown (Thwarted Que...
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
Two Murders Reaped (Thwarte...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
The Gilded Cage (Thwarted Q...
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
The Bride Price (Thwarted Q...
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
Rose of Raby: The First and...
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To Die For by Sandra Byrd
The trouble for the writer, of writing yet another book about Anne Boleyn, is that it is yet another book about Anne Boleyn and consequently the bar is set formidably high for success. I am sure Ms. Byrd believed she had hit upon the winning formula...more
Winter of the World by Ken Follett
Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)
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I am a fan of Ken Follett and I’ve enjoyed reading several of his novels, including FALL OF THE GIANTS. So I was looking forward to reading WINTER OF THE WORLD, but it didn’t seem up to his usual standard.

What struck me first was how Mr. Follett’s pr...more
Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd
Edward Rutherford’s SARUM is a remarkable book about the city of Salisbury and its surrounding environment that takes place over an amazing 10,000 years of time, from the end of the last Ice Age until the present day.



It took me a month to read it, a...more
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Voltaire
“People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it.”
Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

Bertrand Russell
“Not all superstitions are dark and cruel. I once received a communication from the god Osiris. He was living at that time in a suburb of Boston.”
Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays

Bertrand Russell
“Man is a rational animal. So at least we have been told. Throughout a long life I have searched diligently for evidence in favor of this statement. So far, I have not had the good fortune to come across it.”
Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays

Immanuel Kant
“It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank and ice, that soon melts away, tempt us to believe in new lands, while constantly deceiving the adventurous mariner with vain hopes, and involving him in adventures which he can never leave, yet never bring to an end.”
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

Vladimir Nabokov
“Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster.

This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

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