The Classics Club Spin Lands on Wilkie Collins
The Classics Club Spin has delivered Armadale by Wilkie Collins, a sensational novel from the 1850s concerning murder, stolen identity and inheritance fraud.
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British authors
Sacred Country by Rose Tremain — questions of identity
I’d given up reading Rose Tremain after struggling through Music and Silence, convinced that her writing just wasn’t to my
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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier— the identity puzzle
I hesitated about reading Rebecca for many years. The plot was so familiar from all the times I’ve watched the
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The Beautiful Visit by Elizabeth Jane Howard — what’s a girl to do?
I’ve been tempted many times to read Elizabeth Jane Howard having seen her praised by several other bloggers whose opinions
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The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett — emotional lives of women
My expectations for The Old Wives’ Tale were — unfairly as it turned out — coloured by Virginia Woolf’s assessment
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