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Anna Legat rated a book it was amazing Tell Me Lies by Teresa Driscoll (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Hannah is a mother and a wife, and a woman of independent means, but she is damaged by her early childhood experience which has left her susceptible to paranoia, depression and self-doubt. When her husband Sam admits to an affair - a one-night stand, ...more
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Minou lives with her father, Barnard Joubert, and her two younger siblings who look nothing like her. She is content helping her father at his bookshop until one day she received an ominous message, “She knows that you live” and a stranger comes look ...more
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Weyward is a story of three generations of the Weyward women, spanning four hundred years between 1619 and the present. Its three protagonists are Altha, the healer, put on trial for murdering a man and accused of using black arts; Violet, a fifteen- ...more
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Anna Legat rated a book it was amazing The Romantic by William Boyd	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Romantic is a life story sweeping through the first half of the nineteenth century, the post-Napoleonic epoch of passionate, idealistic romanticism and the elevation of the spirit over matter. The hero, Cashel Greville Ross is indeed a spirited y ...more
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Anna Legat rated a book it was amazing The Legacy of Halesham Hall by Jenni Keer (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
“The Legacy of Halesham Hall” is a delightful literary treasure hunt, full of secrets, riddles and trickery stretching over 20 years at the turn of the twentieth century. A strict and cruel family patriarch and prominent proprietor of a successful bo ...more
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Anna Legat rated a book it was amazing Lessons by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
“Lessons” is a fictional memoir of Roland Baines, a boy of great promise, a man of negligible achievement. His story spans his lifetime, the second half of the twentieth century, and bears ongoing references to the historic events of that period. Man ...more
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Anna Legat rated a book it was amazing The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne and Horowitz, #4) by Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Twist of a Knife brings a new twist to the Hawthorne - Horowitz reluctant partnership. Horowitz's new play Mindgame is savaged by Harriet Throsby, a vicious theatre critic who in her review doesn't spare a single cast member and most of all total ...more
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Anna Legat rated a book it was amazing Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The day Isaac and the Egg popped up on my twitter feed I knew straightaway that I had to take a closer look at the pair of them. The premise of the book was intriguingly bizarre and that meant that it had the potential to join the pantheon of my favo ...more
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Anna Legat rated a book it was amazing The Stone Rose: The Rose Trilogy (She-Wolves Trilogy) by Carol McGrath (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Stone Rose is the third and last book in Carol McGrath’s She-Wolf trilogy. This series has been going from strength to strength, and this final instalment is the crown jewel. The central character is Isabella, wife of Edward II. She is of royal b ...more
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Anna Legat rated a book it was amazing The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill by C.S. Robertson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is one of those unorthodox books that defeat the star-rating system. I couldn’t say, hand on heart, that I loved it and thus give it five stars. The story was gruesome and the protagonist unlikeable (never mind loveable). Grace had some characte ...more
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Tell Me Lies
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Hannah is a mother and a wife, and a woman of independent means, but she is damaged by her early childhood experience which has left her susceptible to paranoia, depression and self-doubt. When her husband Sam admits to an affair - a one-night stand, ...more

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The Burning Chambers
by Kate Mosse

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Minou lives with her father, Barnard Joubert, and her two younger siblings who look nothing like her. She is content helping her father at his bookshop until one day she received an ominous message, “She knows that you live” and a stranger comes look ...more

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Weyward
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Weyward is a story of three generations of the Weyward women, spanning four hundred years between 1619 and the present. Its three protagonists are Altha, the healer, put on trial for murdering a man and accused of using black arts; Violet, a fifteen- ...more

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The Romantic
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The Legacy of Halesham Hall
by Jenni Keer (Goodreads Author)

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“The Legacy of Halesham Hall” is a delightful literary treasure hunt, full of secrets, riddles and trickery stretching over 20 years at the turn of the twentieth century.
A strict and cruel family patriarch and prominent proprietor of a successful bo “The Legacy of Halesham Hall” is a delightful literary treasure hunt, full of secrets, riddles and trickery stretching over 20 years at the turn of the twentieth century.
A strict and cruel family patriarch and prominent proprietor of a successful boardgames business, Clement Ballingham pits his two sons against each other in a real-life game for superiority and the legacy of his thriving business and the family residence of Halesham Hall (a gothic edifice of curious architectonic design, riddled with traps, staircases leading to nowhere and horrific murals depicting female infidelity). Clement hates women because his wife abandoned him and his two sons. Clement transfers his resentment onto them. When Clement dies one of his sons takes it all while the other is banished. Twenty years later, Phoebe (the heir’s niece) arrives on Halesham Hall’s doorstep. She too has a game to play – or rather, a mission.
As the story unfolds, alternating between 1899 and 1920, the family secrets are gradually revealed and the background of their motives, misconceptions and errors of judgment is aptly painted, layer by revelatory layer. Jenni Keer’s prose is unintrusive and carries the story forward while holding the reader’s attention right to the very last revelation that finally puts the past to rest and paves the path into a brighter, more promising future. The characters grow with the story, react and transform with it. They are alive, distinct and responsive to the puzzling challenges posed by their discoveries and to the emotional baggage attached to them.
This isn’t a one-pony book – there isn’t just one puzzle to solve. The secrets are aplenty and tightly interrelated with one another. And even the blossoming romance isn’t what you may think it to be at the start.
I chose this book as my holiday read and what an astute choice that was, if I say so myself! I was totally engrossed in the story, snatching every moment to get to another chapter, another discovery that would take me close to the resolution. I relished the hunt and the book was indeed quite a little treasure. ...more

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Lessons
by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)

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“Lessons” is a fictional memoir of Roland Baines, a boy of great promise, a man of negligible achievement.
His story spans his lifetime, the second half of the twentieth century, and bears ongoing references to the historic events of that period. Man “Lessons” is a fictional memoir of Roland Baines, a boy of great promise, a man of negligible achievement.
His story spans his lifetime, the second half of the twentieth century, and bears ongoing references to the historic events of that period. Many of those events have an immediate effect on Roland’s life, in some cases derailing it, in others only forcing him to change the direction of travel. His story begins in Libya where his stern Scottish father, Sergeant Baines, is posted, and traverses through the aftermaths of WW2 in divided Germany, the Suez Canal crisis, the Cold War, Chernobyl disaster and the dawn of New Labour, to mention a few.
The two pivotal events for Roland are the Cuban Missile Crisis and the fall of the Berlin War. These two events intervene directly in his personal life and in the choices he makes that will irreversibly distort his future. The theme of history and political changes on the global scale making life-changing incisions into individual lives is convincing, even compelling.
It is a memoir but it doesn’t present a linear sequence of events in Roland’s life in a conventional way. Two events cast a long shadow over his story and they keep re-appearing to haunt him, to provide justification and generate further questions, and to make him revisit and re-examine them. The first event is his juvenile affair with his piano teacher, passionate and obsessive on both sides. It is instrumental in transforming a promising young musician and academic into a wayward drifter, addicted to sex and averse to permanency and commitment. The second event is his abandonment by his wife Alissa who leaves him and their son in order to pursue a literary career unhindered by family and duty. One can’t help wondering if Roland is not only hurt by her departure, but also in some way jealous that it is her and not him who is able to detach herself so completely from the mundanity of the ordinary, pedestrian life he is obliged to live in order to take care of their son Lawrence. But perhaps that is Roland’s ultimate saving grace. Something that roots him in reality.
“Lessons” is an intelligent, deeply introspective and emotionally loaded book. It has made me stop and think at every corner, at every twist and turn of Roland’s private life and its contemporary context. ...more

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The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz

The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne and Horowitz, #4)
by Anthony Horowitz (Goodreads Author)

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Isaac and the Egg
by Bobby Palmer (Goodreads Author)

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The Stone Rose: The Rose Trilogy (She-Wolves Trilogy)
by Carol McGrath (Goodreads Author)

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The Stone Rose is the third and last book in Carol McGrath’s She-Wolf trilogy. This series has been going from strength to strength, and this final instalment is the crown jewel.
The central character is Isabella, wife of Edward II. She is of royal b The Stone Rose is the third and last book in Carol McGrath’s She-Wolf trilogy. This series has been going from strength to strength, and this final instalment is the crown jewel.
The central character is Isabella, wife of Edward II. She is of royal blood, the daughter of the king of France and she is well aware of how she is meant to play the role of queen consort to Edward. Her marriage is not an easy or conventional one. Edward enjoys the company, and favours, of men as much as women. His intimate “friendship” with Piers has tragic consequences not only for Piers but also for the crown. Hostile barons, Warwick, Lancaster and a few others, flex their muscles and exert their powers in parliament. The threat of Barons Rebellion is never too far. At the same time the Scottish king, Robert the Bruce and his Scottish nobles are constantly raiding the borders, plundering and pillaging. The battle of Bannockburn ends in Edward’s humiliating defeat. Then there is the famine, and a whole sequence of challenges the king and his queen have to deal with.
McGrath’s sense of history, her research and her knowledge are second to none. She paints the wide canvas of the historical background with an assured hand. But being a great historian isn’t her only quality. She is also a fantastic story teller and character builder. She is able to create characters that are alive, vibrant, believable and relatable even though they are removed from our reality by several centuries. It is her attention to detail and her ability to get into her characters’ heads that allows her to convert history into an intimate and visceral work of fiction. She deploys a very successful tool to achieve that: a fictional character of a common woman to complement her historical royal heroine. In this book, it is the character of stonemason, Agnes, whom Isabella engages to help her tell her true story for the posterity.
As always with Carol McGrath’s books, this is a fascinating tale of a medieval queen brought to live for a modern reader. You will feel close-up and personal with Isabella – you will feel as if you know and understand her on an intimate level. ...more

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The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill
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