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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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Jane from Dorset

Good to see you back, I had been wondering if all was well with your world.

Cornflower

All fine, thank you Jane, just a busy time, and it's surprising how easy it is to get out of the habit of regular posting.

Fran H-B

Like the sound of Christina Hardyment's latest book. Its been awile since I have seen anything new by her,

Margaret Powling

I love Stella Martin Currey's book One Woman's Year, I have an original copy published in 1953. Indeed long before we had the internet, I wrote to our local library and they found out for me that she had written several other works, mainly plays. This is one of those books I re-read (as you intend to read) in the January of each year.

Dark Puss

Reading (viewing?) a fantastic and thoughtful book, Camera Atomica, edited by John O'Brian and published by "Black Dog" (which you may remember went bust early in 2018 with very significant debts for a small independent). The book encompasses nuclear photography (not just weapons)from Hiroshima & Nagasaki through the Cold War era to the Daiichi accident and also N Korea and Iran. Stunning, disturbing photographs with thoughtful and provoking essays.

Claire

You must be delighted to have a Toppings now in Edinburgh. I haven't been into it yet but go to the St Andrews one fairly regularly and never emerge empty handed. How could you?

Dark Puss

Easily :-)

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