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Colin Falconer
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The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane
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When We Were Gods: A Novel of Cleopatra
— published 1999 — 19 editions |
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The Sultan's Harem
— published 1992 — 36 editions |
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Isabella: Braveheart of France
— published 2013 — 8 editions |
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Anastacia
— published 2002 — 17 editions |
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Silk Road
— published 2001 — 18 editions |
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Feathered Serpent: A Novel of the Mexican Conquest
— published 1996 — 23 editions |
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My Beautiful Spy
— published 2005 — 8 editions |
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Venom
— published 1990 — 6 editions |
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Fury
— published 1991 |
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1.The world’s most expensive book – adjusted for inflation – is Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Codex Leicester’, that Bill Gates bought for US $30.8 million in 1994. That’s over fifty million in today’s money. So move over Dan Brown, it’s da Vinci’s own Code that tops the lot.
2. Love the smell of old books? You’re not alone – and there’s also a word for it, it’s called ‘bibliosmia.’ That distinctive smel...
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Heller’s opus is often mentioned in the same breath as Joyce’s Ulysses, Salinger’s Catcher in theRye, or Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby. Unlike those novels it also added a word to the English lexicon - Catch 22, the law that says you can’t win, whatever y ...more |
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Thanks so much for your review, Anne and for the vote of confidence, Linda! Now that I finally have the book in the US it's doing quite well. And than
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“They say women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake a whole relationship.”
― Colin Falconer, The Naked Husband
― Colin Falconer, The Naked Husband
“I’ve drunk French champagne in a speakeasy and water out of a horse trough in Poland, and the thing that matters is not what I’m drinking but who I’m drinking with.”
― Colin Falconer, The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane
― Colin Falconer, The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane
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