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Category Archives: 2013 New Reads
REVIEW: Torrent – Lindsay Buroker
(self-published e-book, 2013) Book 1 in Rust and Relics series Delia and Simon are wandering around Arizona in their campervan using Delia’s archaeological knowledge (and her Indiana Jones-ish bullwhip skills) and Simon’s tech wizardry to locate and retrieve historical artefacts … Continue reading
BOOK TO SCREEN: White Mischief
1987 film directed by Michael Radford White Mischief tells the story of the still-unsolved murder of Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, in Kenya in 1941. Erroll was well-known for being in a louche set in Kenya – his impressive … Continue reading
Wild places, or, reading and not blogging
I’ve fallen into a blogging hole again, and it’s not because I haven’t been reading. Oh no. Perhaps it’s because I’ve been reading too much, and it’s seemed like much more fun to go pick up another book than to … Continue reading
REVIEW: Penguin Lines – various authors
The London Underground is 150 years old this year. In commemoration of this, Penguin have issued a series of books, one for each of the Underground Lines (the East London although not now in existence, has its own book, Buttoned … Continue reading
REVIEW: Original Sin – P. D. James
This is the tenth of P. D. James’ crime novels featuring her Metropolitan Police detective Adam Dalgliesh. Dalgliesh is a direct fictional descendent of Ngaio Marsh’s Roderick Alleyn, though James’ novels are much more modern and less concerned with the … Continue reading
REVIEW: The Everyday Dancer – Deborah Bull
Deborah Bull was formerly a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, and her aim in this book is to give an idea about what a typical day (if one exists) in the life of a professional dancer in a large … Continue reading
Posted in 2013 New Reads, Non-fiction, Reviews
Tagged a dancer's life, ballet, Deborah Bull, history of ballet, Luke Jennings, performance, rehearsals
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REVIEW: Murder Actually – Stephanie McCarthy
Elspeth Gray, a romance novelist in her mid-thirties, has been living in All Hallows (a small town in New York) following her divorce. She treads safe and unthreatening ground with her books, and proclaims her distaste for crime novels. However, … Continue reading
REVIEW: The Last Light of the Sun – Guy Gavriel Kay
This novel, set in the same world as the Sarantine Mosaic duology and The Lions of Al-Rassan, takes as its starting point the reign of Alfred the Great and his struggles against the raiding Danes. In Kay’s world, the Danes … Continue reading
Posted in 2013 New Reads, Fantasy, Read on my Kindle, Reviews
Tagged Alfred the Great, clash of cultures, faery, fighting, forging a nation, friendship, Guy Gavriel Kay, historical fantasy, love, music, raiding, Vikings
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