The Electric Hotel by Dominic Smith — lights, camera, action
[ A brief pause while I roll my eyes at the level of media coverage this film has garnered. It
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historical fiction
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh – big, bold and baggy
Sea of Poppies proved to be more challenging than The Glass Palace, the only one of Amitav Ghosh’s novels I’ve
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The Foundling by Stacey Halls — enduring power of a mother’s love
The Foundling — Stacy Hall’s second novel after her best selling debut The Familiars — offers vastly contrasting views of
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The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex — perils of the sea
The Lamplighters takes inspiration from one of the big unsolved puzzles of modern times: the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers
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What I’m Reading : Episode 51, April 2023
What I just finished reading March was supposed to be a month full of reading Celtic authors in celebration of
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