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Amanda’s 2021 Year in Books
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I’ve heard of that paint! Good idea for a story. I write late at night and during the holidays.
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Interview with the BBC
Another interview! This time with Pat Marsh over at BBC Radio Kent. I hope to chat with them again soon as they’ve asked me to do some blog posts.
Have a listen! https://youtu.be/qTduIntLX5k
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"Loved it. So good to read Freida's story, a second novel which didn't disappoint in any way.
Even as a second novel it's a superb read. No airy fairy teenage witch with the obligatory long golden curls and a skinny figure, Freida is a totally differen" Read more of this review » |
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"beautiful
Unexpectedly delightful :) I loved the first book, and this too has me wishing the series had already been written and I was just at the beginning! I think we all have a bit of Frieda in us, and we all strive to be more Lilleth. " Read more of this review » |
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I had a rush of blood to the head and read five Candlish novels on the trot. ‘The Day You Saved my Life’ (it was awful, really don’t bother with this one) ‘The Second Husband’, ‘The Island Hideaway’, ‘Those People’ and ‘The Heights’. They were all rea ...more |
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| A great rollicking read bouncing around Hollywood in the 50s and 60s. It had a Valley of the Dolls vibe but not quite so dark. It reminded me of the Jackie Collins bonkbusters of old but with a little more sophistication and nuance. I liked the relat ...more | |
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Many people may, like me, be put off by the author’s choice of not using speech marks. I gave up on ‘Normal People’ because of it, and I have to confess I spent a lot of time trying to puzzle out who was saying what to whom – which was infuriating. H ...more |
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Many people may, like me, be put off by the author’s choice of not using speech marks. I gave up on ‘Normal People’ because of it, and I have to confess I spent a lot of time trying to puzzle out who was saying what to whom – which was infuriating. H ...more |
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| This is going to be an unpopular review. So many people I know LOVED this but I just couldn't get into it. I think the problem was I listened on Audible and the narrator's voice was not only pompous it was curiously soporific that meant whenever I he ...more | |
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” – Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (ca 410 BCE)”
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“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain (attributed but prob not true - shame - I shall pretend it was him)”
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Mark Twain (attributed but prob not true - shame - I shall pretend it was him)”
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“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” – Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (ca 410 BCE)”
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“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain (attributed but prob not true - shame - I shall pretend it was him)”
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Mark Twain (attributed but prob not true - shame - I shall pretend it was him)”
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A little reminder that my giveaway of 100 kindle copies of 'The Bookbinder' is ending soon. Do sign up before it's too late!
