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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
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Deborah

This sounds like a book I would love! Some books languish on shelves for years, constantly being overlooked, and I have a copy of Jane Urquhart's "The Underpainter" that has done just that. I shall now place it in mt TBR pile! Also, I am reading "The Discovery of Witches", which I would never have considered if I hadn't read your review, and am finding it a wonderfully entertaining read - so thank you again!

Cornflower

The Underpainter looks very good, too.
So glad you're enjoying "... Witches" - it is tremendously entertaining! (Volume 2 in the trilogy is now out in paperback.)

thevelvetnap

I loved Away when I read it years ago

Cornflower

That's another one for the wish list, then!

Linda Gillard

You've reminded me it's high time I read some more Urquhart. This one sounds marvellous.

Cornflower

I must read The Stone Carvers.

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