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Tim Vicary
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October 2011
About this author
Hi. I'm Tim Vicary and I work at the university of York, England. Most of the books you see on Goodreads under my name are graded readers published by Oxford University Press, specially written for foreign learners of English. They are fun to write and easy to read, and I've even won a couple of awards for them recently, from the Extensive Reading Foundation.
But I also write full-length crime a... Read more of this blog post »
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A Game of Proof (The Trials of Sarah Newby, #1)
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The Elephant Man
by Tim Vicary (Goodreads Author), Jennifer Bassett , Tricia Hedge — published 1983 — 9 editions |
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A Fatal Verdict (The Trials of Sarah Newby, #2)
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Skyjack!
by Tim Vicary (Goodreads Author), Jennifer Bassett , Tricia Hedge — 4 editions |
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The Blood upon the Rose
— published 1992 — 5 editions |
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Bold Counsel (The Trials of Sarah Newby, #3)
— published 2011 — 2 editions |
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Nobody's Slave
— published 2012 — 2 editions |
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Cat And Mouse
— published 1993 — 3 editions |
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Mary, Queen of Scots
by Tim Vicary (Goodreads Author), Tricia Hedge — published 1992 — 3 editions |
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Chemical Secret
by Tim Vicary (Goodreads Author), Jennifer Bassett , Tricia Hedge — published 2000 — 3 editions |
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The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins T.S. Eliot described this as 'the first, the best, and the longest of all detective novels' and it is hard to disagree with any of that. I read this book many years ago, but was able to enjoy it afresh because I had co...more |
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Tim Vicary
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The Case of the Russian Chessboard: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Only Now Revealed
by Charlie Roxburgh (Goodreads Author)
read in September, 2012
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| This is a great story that should really appeal to Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts. Charlie Roxburgh certainly knows his stuff: he has mastered the Holmes idiom brilliantly, with the indignant Watson and the supersleuth moving from Baker Street and the F...more | |
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| This is an excellent debut novel. Bev Jones has worked as a journalist in the South Wales area and she uses the background and her experience to full effect. The story starts with a group of young students at Cardiff university, all apparently good f...more | |
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Tim Vicary
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
by Tamim Ansary
read in January, 2013
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This is a great book. If you ever wanted to know how Muslims see the world, and how their idea of world history differs from that commonly taught in the west, then this book has the answer. Not only that, but it’s delightfully written too. Tamim Ansar...more |
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| When I first read Chequered Justice I had not heard of John Bartlett and I had no interest in motor racing. But to my surprise I found he had written a marvellous, horrifying book which was impossible to put down. I read it over a weekend; it was the...more | |
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