The second book in the Mercia Blakewood historical crime series that spans Restoration London and the New World Following adventures she would sooner forget in the newly renamed New York,…

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The lone swimmer, turning over now to switch to a perfectly executed back crawl wasn’t a man. It was a woman, a girl. It was Catherine. Of course it was…

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I think we’ve seen the last of the fireworks (a brilliant display nearby our offices last night which we watched out of our skylight) and the end of the mild…

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In the A&B office, we’ve been talking about our personal resolutions which range from starting yoga, cooking a new recipe once a week and writing more letters (that’s right, proper…

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Phew, a mere three days at Earls Court, having largely lovely conversations and dashing off to the odd seminar, how exhausting the whole thing was. And as suspected it was…

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  I first heard of Rich Mix as the venue for a DocHouse documentary screening (more of that here) and was keen to learn more about the charitable/social enterprise, which…

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As a relatively new iPhone user, I’m still discovering plenty that my new gadget has to offer. A browse through the app store the other day revealed plenty of freebies……

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…her shoe—and Arnie’s mother, most damningly of all, reveals that it might have been her too.   The police are called in to investigate the crime, but free-thinking artist Sam…

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A unique mix of the comical, and the touchingly humane, this brilliantly perceptive novel sees a group of parents, trapped in middle-class stability, dealing with marriage, kids and their suburban…

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…on the cover AND because I got a free book with it! Bargain. This has got to be the best freebie. I had a choice of Black Seconds, by Karin…

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…of books, for example cheap detective Herbie Proctor, who appears first in Ten Little Herrings. He is discovered at a hotel in the Loire, ‘drinking the smallest size of beer…

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…the day. So much of the cheap and cheerful in London, as we squeeze the last dregs out of the tailing summer, still seems to revolve around the outdoors. Tempted…

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…on space, it eliminates delivery and shipping costs, as well as the need for big print runs. The on-demand model is much more cost-effective – niche out-of-print titles, which the…

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…shipping line. Employed by P&O to be the ship’s detectives, George and Genevieve are certain they will encounter the same petty thefts and confidence tricksters they’re used to dealing with,…

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Considered by some to be Budd Schulberg’s masterpiece, The Disenchanted tells the tragic story of Manley Halliday, a fabulously successful writer during the 1920s — a golden figure in a…

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Eight years ago, the national tabloids had a feeding frenzy over the ‘Primal Cut’ killings. The Garrod brothers, East End butchers, had turned their expertise to rendering human flesh. The…

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He may be a giant but giants have been licked before. Don’t forget Goliath. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Eddie Lewis, former student of Princeton and would-be…

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…a port on the Atlantic coast, where they are to be set free. When their assignment goes awry, it is up to Pearce and his comrades to prevent the inevitable…

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…footing in an India free from colonial rule, what place is there for Prof. Raven, the English man who comes to see Mili as more than his student? Recommend This:…

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…The Summer House, by Mary Nichols – buy from Amazon, Kobo, Apple The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, by Lauren Willig – buy from Amazon, Kobo, Apple Molly’s Millions,…

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