The Miracle of Cider Vinegar: Practical Tips for Home and Health
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Cider vinegar enjoys cult status in many countries, including Britain, the US, Canada and Japan, and...
The Woodland House
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In 2003 Ben Law captivated the nation by building his woodland house on Channel 4s Grand Designs...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Forever And A Day in Books
Oct 20, 2020 (Updated Oct 20, 2020)
Horowitz's novel tries to do the same thing as the movie version of Casino Royale - to show how Bond becomes Bond. At this he is only really marginally successful, as Bond starts the novel as a pretty icy brute and ends only more icy and brutal. That said, the book evokes the Fleming formula rather well: there is the usual mixture of globe-trotting, good living, maniacal snobbery, action, torture, and sex in just about the right proportions. Some may complain that some contemporary politics have snuck into what's essentially an escapist fantasy - one villain is a bouffant-haired American tycoon with wandering hands, who thinks America should put its own interests first, while another gets a big speech about the smallness and insignificance of Britain, and its reliance on a close relationship with Europe if it wants to prosper. Nevertheless, fun, pacy stuff and very readable.
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Seduce (Beautiful Rose, #1) in Books
Jan 11, 2021
I wasn't quite expected the ending, well, the bit near the end anyway. I thought that A Beautiful Rose would have continued their story but obviously I was wrong.
As a Brit, there were a few things that didn't ring true:
One thing I didn't get was how if they were all British, they didn't know the legal ages for sex. In my experience, everyone knows it. And considering what a man-whore Jack is/was how did he not know? I'm sure he had a posh schooling but even then I'm sure he started early, so by rights, he should have known. And another is Belle saying she was in her last year of college; in Britain it would have made her seventeen, not twenty-one, unless she'd had to do several extra years.
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
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Where are you really from? You’re British. Your parents are British. You were raised in...
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Hitler's Secret
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The most anticipated spy thriller of 2020, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Corpus. ...
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When you’re left with nothing but your secrets, how do you start again? Uganda 1972 A...
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One of Them
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Musa Okwonga – a young Black man who grew up in a predominantly working-class town – was not...
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Cutty Sark: A Souvenir Guide to the Story of the Last of the Tea Clippers
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It is amazing that Cutty Sark has survived. Many of the clipper ships that sailed the China Seas...
Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants
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Indiana Jones has landed his first teaching post, in the archaeology department at London...