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Review written by Tracey Sinclair Buy this book Philippa Gregory remains best known for The Other Boleyn Girl, the best-selling novel which spawned both a TV series and Hollywood film. Lately s…
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Buy this book Review written by Tracey Sinclair Orange award-winning novel Song of Achilles may have been ten years in the writing, but debut novelist Madeline Miller hasn’t wasted a moment of her tim…
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Buy this book Review by Tracey Sinclair He may be one of the bestselling British authors of all-time – and reputedly the most shoplifted one – but Sir Terry Pratchett is often dismissed by the mainstr…
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Review written by Caroline Goldsmith Welcome to London. A city where vampires and other creatures of the darkness roam amongst us, working, commuting, paying taxes and looking for someone to love… a…
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Capital tells the story of South London street, Pepys Road and it’s affluent dwellers who, by virtue of increased property prices, are millionaires. That is almost all of them, not the shop owner, nor…
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Throughout reading Toibin’s excellent novel based on the life of Henry James, I was intrigued by the title – ‘The Master’. For I wondered while reading it and wonder still what exactly Henry James was…
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Swedish Crime, neither genre nor nationality that I am particular familiar with but when the brilliant Christopher MacLehose (he who built the Harvill list) urged me to read this book at the Independe…
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