The General by C S Forester – a lifetime of duty
In the popular imagination, vast numbers of British infantry soldiers were sent needlessly to their deaths in World War 1
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British authors
Sample Sunday: 3 Doorstep Novels
My Sample Sunday spotlight this week is turned on three of the chunkiest books on my TBR shelves. As a
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All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West How can I even begin to do justice to a novel so beautiful, elegant and thoughtful as All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West? This is a novel which confounds the stereotypical portrayals of older people often found in literature. I’m sure you’ve come across them. There’s the senile grandparent […]
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Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier [bookreview]
Jamaica Inn, Daphne du Maurier’s classic tale of murder and smuggling also raises issues about violence towards women
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Tomorrow by Graham Swift [review]
Tomorrow by Graham Swift is a woman’s message to her children the night before they are told the family’s big secret
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