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Category Archives: 2009 New Reads
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – Ian Fleming
(Penguin 2008, originally published 1963) Like many of Fleming’s novels featuring James Bond, the book is good deal more reflective and less gung-ho than the filmed versions – though the film of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is a good … Continue reading
Posted in 2009 New Reads, Fiction, Filmed adaptations, Re-read, Reviews, Thriller
Tagged biological warfare, curing phobias, damaged women, evil plans, heraldry, Ian Fleming, James Bond, love, organised crime, skiing, Switzerland, tragedy, villainy
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The books of Mary Stewart – part 3
Apologies for the delay in posting the last of these three posts about Mary Stewart’s novels – the first two parts are here and here. Last in the current tranche of books read was Touch Not The Cat (1976), which … Continue reading
Posted in 2009 New Reads, 2011 New Reads, Fiction, Re-read, Read on my Kindle, Reviews, Romance, Travel
Tagged acting, conspiracy, Corfu, dolphin, family history, floods, france, helping out a child, links, Mary Stewart, murder, smuggling, suspense, telepathy, travel, wartime experiences, Worcestershire
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Untimely Death – Cyril Hare
(Faber 2008, originally published in the UK as ‘He Should Have Died Hereafter’ in 1957) Cyril Hare was the pseudonym of a distinguished lawyer, Alfred A. G. Clark, barrister and later judge, who used his knowledge of the law to … Continue reading
Posted in 2009 New Reads, Crime fiction, Fiction, Reviews
Tagged accidental death, Cyril Hare, Exmoor, legal matters, murder, quarrelsome families, stag-hunting
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The Red House Mystery – A. A. Milne
(Vintage 2009, originally published 1922) It’s rather a surprise to realise that Milne, now known best for his Winnie-the-Pooh books, poetry for children and dramatization of The Wind in the Willows, Toad of Toad Hall, wrote a detective novel. In … Continue reading
Wolves Eat Dogs – Martin Cruz Smith
In this fifth novel (published in 2004) featuring Russian investigator Arkady Renko (following Gorky Park, Polar Star, Red Square and Havana Bay), Cruz Smith returns Renko to Moscow, where he is investigating the mysterious death of Pasha Ivanov in a … Continue reading
Posted in 2009 New Reads, Crime fiction, Fiction, Reviews
Tagged Baba Yaga, Chernobyl, childen, research, responsibility, Russia, Russian mafia, salt, Ukraine
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Restoree – Anne McCaffrey
McCaffrey is well known for her series of books set on Pern (Dragonsong, The White Dragon, and so on) as well as several other series of science fiction books (the Crystal Singer books, The Ship Who Sang books, and many … Continue reading
Posted in 2009 New Reads, Fiction, Science fiction
Tagged alien abduction, doctors, interplanetary war, love, political intrigue, rescue, rhinoplasty, role reversal, villains
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