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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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Claire

Oh, you have me in a quandary. I was going to download this and listen and now I think I would enjoy reading it. What to do........

Cornflower

I think I'd suggest reading it, Claire.

Claire

Yes, you're right - I'm going to put it on my C******** list.

Mary

Good grief. Not available in the US until June 9, 2015.

Margaret Powling

This sounds right up my street. I love books in which people write about simple things which give pleasure. Bernard Levin did this in his book Enthusiasms, and in a way Mrs Miniver is about fairly simple things, a new engagement diary, and so forth (even though that one is a work of fiction.) I love the idea of stepping on a nut giving pleasure. When we step on nuts in our garden the first thing we think of is to remember to remove our shoves on entry as the walnut husk leaves a bright yellow stain on anything with which it comes into contact!
Margaret P

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