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David Bramhall
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Almost anything by Rose Tremain.
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Kitty in the Winter Wild
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The Bernadette
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2014
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Kitty in the Castle
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The Black Joke (The Greatest Cape Book 1)
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2013
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Aurelia: Six ghost stories
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2013
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The Bernadette
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2013
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2 editions
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Rio Sagrado (The Greatest Cape Book 3)
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2015
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The Honeyplot
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Kitty at the End of the World
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Training your young choir
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2011
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Finagle's Constant
I wrote recently about a feature of the Golden Age of Science Fiction, the “willing suspension of disbelief”. One other important idea was called “Finagle's Constant”.
Finagle's Constant was first publicised by John W.Campbell Jr., the editor of “Astounding Science Fiction” magazine (later “Analog”) in the 1940s – 60s. The Constant states that “The entropy of the universe tends towards infinity” or Read more of this blog post »
Finagle's Constant was first publicised by John W.Campbell Jr., the editor of “Astounding Science Fiction” magazine (later “Analog”) in the 1940s – 60s. The Constant states that “The entropy of the universe tends towards infinity” or Read more of this blog post »
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| This is a second-rate book, and I mean this in no pejorative sense. I write second-rate books myself. The author did not set out to write a classic, a book that would delight children of successive generations and find a place on library shelves alon ...more | |
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| The problem with Jane Austen is that so many excellent films have been made from her books that we have convinced ourselves that she is a great author. She isn't. The only one of her main novels that has any pretensions to real quality is Pride and P ...more | |
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| The detective stories of Austin Freeman are quite a recent discovery for me and I have to say that I am beyond impressed. Of course his novels are not to all tastes, far from it - they are verbose, so detailed as to test one's concentration, and very ...more | |
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Simply dreadful, almost unreadable except for some nice descriptions of the Galloway countryside. Wimsey himself is not a well-fleshed out character compared to other books. The plot is terribly complicated, involving a great deal of railway timetable ...more |
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