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No Stranger to Death by Janet O’Kane
My thanks to Janet O’Kane for sending me a copy of her book, No Stranger to Death, which I really enjoyed reading. Once I’d started it I just wanted to keep on reading. I was surprised by how...
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Leaving Alexandria by Richard Holloway
I was browsing the biography section in the local library when I came across Leaving Alexandria: a Memoir of Faith and Doubt by Richard Holloway. I vaguely remembered that he had been an outspoken...
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Sisters of Sinai by Janet Soskice
The full title of this book is Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels. This is biography so well written that it almost reads like a novel. In fact, if this was a novel I...
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Book Beginnings: The Crow Road by Iain Banks
It was the day that my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach’s Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be...
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Read Scotland 2014 Challenge: two books
I’ve got a bit behind with writing reviews, so here are some notes on two books I’ve recently read, both of which fit into the Read Scotland 2014 Challenge. It’s common knowledge now that Robert...
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Dark Matter by Philip Kerr
Dark Matter by Philip Kerr is a book from my to-be-read piles. I bought it at a library sale a couple of years ago now, attracted by the title. I soon realised that it is not about Newton, the...
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The Three Graces by Jane Wallman-Girdlestone
I’ve read a couple of novels this year that deal with mental illness – The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, which I found a bit confusing and disjointed and The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing. My reaction...
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Still Catching Up
I’ve been missing from my blog for most of September, but I’ve still been reading. We’ve just returned from a few days in the Lake District – such a beautiful part of the UK! Caldbeck, Cumbria I...
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Testament of a Witch by Douglas Watt
Testament of a Witch by Douglas Watt is the second book of his that I’ve read. The first one Death of a Chief I read 5 years ago! Both books are set in late 17th century Scotland (1686 and 1687) and...
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A Short Book About Drawing by Andrew Marr
I have called this a “A Short Book About Drawing” because that’s what it is. But it is also a book about being happy and the importance of drawing and making, for a happy life. I’ve written books...
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A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This is the first Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson mystery, published in 1887. A Study in Scarlet is a novel in two parts. The first, narrated by Dr John Watson, begins in 1881 with Watson on nine months...
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Cauldstane by Linda Gillard
Linda Gillard describes her book, Cauldstane as ‘a gothic novel in the romantic suspense tradition of Daphne du Maurier, Mary Stewart & Victoria Holt.‘ It is a ghost story, set in a Scottish tower...
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