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Let's Get PhysicalAll right ladies. Are you ready? Let's go! I enjoyed Danielle Friedman's account of the rise of women's exercise classes ...
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Breakfast at Tiffany'sI enjoyed Jenny Jackson's PIneapple Street and its 'old money' Brooklyn setting. I was also intrigued by its epitaph - a quote...
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Penguin Orange Classics - The Joy Luck ClubAnd I am sitting at my mother's place at the mah jong table, on the East where things begin. Can't believe it is almost 35...
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Real Tigers (Slough House #3)I raced through the Slough House series by Mick Herron after reading an interview with one of my favourite writers, Mary Lawson, who...
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Lucy by the SeaEasily the best novel I read last year was Elizabeth Strout's Lucy by the Sea. I love Lucy's gorgeous narrative...
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Love and SaffronMother loves her magazine subscriptions, and every month, as soon as they arrive, she folds back the pages to her favourite columns. The...
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Agatha Christie by Lucy WorsleyI do like a literary biography and Lucy Worsley's Agatha Christie - A Very Elusive Woman is a great autumnal read. It's a...
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The Cinderella Killer - a Charles Paris mysteryHis hair was getting increasingly grey at the temples - still hopefully just on the side of distingue rather than decrepit - and he...
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Lily KingLily King's short story collection FIve Tuesday's in Winter was the highlight of my recent reading pile. I loved her 2015...
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NomadlandBeing human means yearning for more than subsistence. As much as food or shelter we require hope. And there is hope on...
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The Amazing Mr BlundenA blackbird was calling, a single note repeated, a warning note; but she could not turn her head to look at him. It was as if...
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Clare ChambersIf only I hadn't gone back to the house on the day Lexi left; if only Anne Trevillion had been better at tennis; if only they hadn't...
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The AppealThis is amateur dramatics, not the RSC. I took this smart and amusing murder mystery to Brighton last weekend and...
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Mary LawsonShe threw out a bottle of perfume the twins had given her for Christmas one year, the name of which - Ambush - had made her...
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Josephine Tey' Go away from here. Go away while the going is good. Go away. Away from here.' I made the rookie mistake...
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Black Narcissus'Then she could have sworn she heard a noise, a drag like a wet skirt on the floor, but the room was empty. ' Rumer Godden's...
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Ann PatchettWhen my daughters were little I used to read them the Blue Kangaroo books by Emma Chichester Clark. While they were entranced with...
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When the sukebind is in bud ...Delicious new cover for the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Cold Comfort Farm. I've never found this book quite as amusing as...
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Daphne Du Maurier and Her SistersIn September 1926, Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters Angela and Jeanne and their mother caught the Great Western train at Paddington...
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Trouble at LowoodWhen the typhus fever had fulfilled its mission of devastation at Lowood, it gradually disappeared from thence;...
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Rebecca"I'm afraid it does not concern me very much what Mrs de Winter used to do ... I am Mrs de Winter now you know." My favourite...
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Big Stone GapThe Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. When I see it lumbering down the mountain road...
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Literary DetectivesMy first favourite literary detective is Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey that blue-blooded aristocrat and amateur sleuth created by...
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These Wonderful Rumours!I do like Home Front diaries. May Smith was a 25 year old school teacher living with her parents in 1939. She kept a journal...
