Maggie Brookes
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The Prisoner's Wife
5 editions
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2020
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The historical record shows that an enslaved woman called Maria spent nine months in 1579 aboard Francis Drake’s Golden Hind, sailing up and down the Pacific coast of the Americas. This extraordinary book takes a few lines of recorded history and wea ...more | |
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The Last Year of the War is a richly drawn novel about friendship and injustice and the terrible consequences of war. It did what every good novel ought to do – it took me to placs I’ve never been, told me things I didn’t know, made me smile and shak ...more | |
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This a wonderful collection – funny, angry, intelligent and moving. A fitting successor to the TS Eliot shortlisted All My Mad Mothers. It’s the work of a poet at the top of her game, and superbly in control of her craft, using form in unexpected and ...more | |
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I’m going to be buying this extraordinary book for lots of people. As the author says in the introduction, “I find it strange that the people of these islands often know more about the pantheons of Greece and Rome than they do about the mythic hoard ...more | |
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Of course it’s as funny as the cover promises – as funny and painfully honest as you’d expect from this talented comedian. But this book is so much more than a witty memoir or a portrait of toxic masculitnity. It’s also a vivid snapshot portrait of a ...more |
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