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  • Daphne du Maurier: The King's General
  • Deborah Lawrenson: The Secretary
  • Richard Cohen: How to Write like Tolstoy
  • Adrian Tinniswood: Noble Ambitions
  • Adrian Tinniswood: The Power and the Glory
  • Martin Williams: The King is Dead, Long Live the King
  • Gavin Plumley: A Home for all Seasons
  • Robert Harris: Precipice
  • Nigel Slater: A Thousand Feasts
  • Joan Aiken: Tales of London Town
  • Alan Connor: 188 Words for Rain
  • Ben Robinson: English Villages: An Extraordinary Journey through Time

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Dark Puss

I expect you've read some of Muir's wonderful books and essays, but if you haven't I urge you to do so. Better wait until about 2017 though if you want to maximise the pleasure!

Cornflower

No, I haven't read Muir at all, but I'll bear in mind your suggested 'best after' date!

Christine Harding

Thanks for the tip - There hasn't been anything I was interested in for ages ages, and today I didn't look, but I've wanted The Wild Places ever since I heard it on Radio 4, and I've bought Mountains of the Mind as well, because it was such a bargain. Oh, I do think the Kindle is wonderful!

Dark Puss

It's a "keep until" date to maximise your pleasure. Muir is that good :-)

Cornflower

I agree, there can be very fallow periods where these Kindle bargains are concerned, but today's book is worth grabbing.

michi

Thank you for sharing it,  I've always wanted to read his books,so I bought both of them which cost less than two pounds. What a bargain! I live in East Lothian where John Muir was born, and bought walking boots last week for exploring the nature of East Lothian such as the John Muir Way (the coastline).  I just hope the weather will improve!

Cornflower

East Lothian is lovely, and we often walk the coast there (and in Mr. C's case, the golf courses of Gullane!).

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