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Category Archives: Re-read
REVIEW: The Marlows and the Traitor – Antonia Forest
(Girls Gone By Publishers 2003, originally published Faber & Faber, 1953) Antonia Forest published her first book, Autumn Term, in 1948, and her last, Run Away Home, in 1982, but she was not a prolific writer, and, during and after … Continue reading
REVIEW: A Civil Contract – Georgette Heyer
Originally published 1961 When I first discovered Georgette Heyer in my teens, and started devouring her books wholesale, this was never one of my favourites. The plot – how two people enter into a marriage of convenience and how that … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Historical fiction, Re-read, Reviews, Romance
Tagged 19th century, A Civil Contract, agriculture, Battle of Waterloo, debt, Georgette Heyer, links, living in the country, married love
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DWJ March – The Game: Diana Wynne Jones
I’d originally intended not to review anything for DWJ March except The Islands of Chaldea, but I picked The Game up a couple of weeks ago to re-read (since I’d only read it once before), and thought I might as … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Fiction, Re-read, Reviews
Tagged Atlas, Baba Yaga, cousins, Diana Wynne Jones, DWJMarch, Greek myths, not really an orphan, Orion, prophecy, stars and constellations, The Game, unreasonable behaviour
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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
REVIEW: The Tiger in the Smoke – Margery Allingham
(Penguin 1975, originally published 1952) Meg Elginbrodde, recently engaged to Geoffrey Levett, has been a war widow for five years after her husband Martin was killed in France. Recently, however, photographs have been turning up, both in illustrated papers and … Continue reading
Posted in Crime fiction, Fiction, Re-read, Reviews, Thriller
Tagged Albert Campion, atmosphere, crime, fog, london, Margery Allingham, murder, not a Campion novel, practical jokes, treasure
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DISCUSSION: Impersonation stories
The theme of an heir returning from the dead (or long-missing) is one which is occasionally used by writers – particularly thriller or crime writers – often to enable a bit of chicanery and double bluffing – is he or … Continue reading
REVIEW: The Last Hero – Leslie Charteris
(originally published 1930) Leslie Charteris (the pseudonym of Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin) was born in 1907 and published his first novel in 1927, when at university. He was the author of many books but is most famous for the creation of … Continue reading
Posted in Crime fiction, Fiction, Re-read, Reviews, Thriller
Tagged anarchy, hi-jinks, knight-errantry, Leslie Charteris, limericks, love, Norman Kent, The Saint, violence, weapons of mass destruction
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