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Suzie Grogan
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Suzie Grogan
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| A good, straightforward whodunnit, set in the Lake District. Cold cases aren't exactly a new idea but the links between historical research and detection as professions are neatly done. | |
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A terrific collection of short stories to send a shiver down your spine. Vivienne Tuffnell has not just written some really chilling tales that take you into some very dark places. 'The Devil's Pet'is, for me, the most scary, but by the end of the bo...more |
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| A wedge driven between them by a traumatic event in their recent past, married couple Netty and Gerald move from Oxford to the Dordogne in an attempt to escape and heal. Gerald is more convinced of the wisdom of the plan and Netty responds badly to t...more | |
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Suzie Grogan
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I enjoyed this book - I always love to immerse myself in Elizabeth's Taylor's wonderfully insightful prose. But this one was less engaging for some reason - a little too aloof perhaps. It is, though, a wonderful story about the nature of love, of mar...more |
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Suzie Grogan
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| I have been lucky enough to read a proof copy of this book, which isn't out just yet. I have to say it made a wonderful companion on a trip to Paris. It is not a sequel to The Painted Bridge (one of my favourite books of 2012, just out in paperback)b...more | |
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Suzie Grogan
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Suzie Grogan
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| This is a book to read slowly. Drink in the philosophical insights of Amadeu Prado, the man who wrote the book that takes the lead character on a journey to Lisbon and a new outlook on life, death, love and betrayal. It is, in some ways, a thriller....more | |
“And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you.
-Gabriel Oak”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
-Gabriel Oak”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”
― John Keats
― John Keats
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