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Originally published in 1892, this book was formed from the content of the Yorke Prize Essay for...
The Origin and History of Contract in Roman Law: Down to the End of the Republican Period
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Originally published in 1895, this book was formed from the Yorke Prize Essay for 1893. The text...
A Lion Was Learning to Ski, and Other Limericks
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Education in Britain can be traced back to Roman times; great institutions such as the colleges of...
Good Pastures: Some Memories of Farming Fifty Years Ago
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Originally published in 1944, this book provides a highly readable account of agricultural life in...
Natural Woodland: Ecology and Conservation in Northern Temperate Regions
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Natural Woodland describes how woodlands grow, die and regenerate in the absence of human influence,...
Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy, #1)
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In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic,...
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Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and...
ClareR (6253 KP) rated The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby in Books
Jun 24, 2026
I haven’t read Ellery Lloyds second book, The Club, but I have read People Like Her - and its completely different stylistically and thematically to that.
This starts in Paris in 1938, when artist and heiress Juliette Willoughby dies in a fire in her Parisian apartment/ art studio. We then jump 50 years in to the future to Cambridge where two art students discover that the fire appears not to have been an accident, and indeed is linked in some way to a murder in present day Dubai.
This is so complex that there is no way that I could try and describe the storyline beyond this - and I wouldn’t want to. It’s for the reader to find out what happens and how - and what a ride it is! I was carried along by the fantastic narration of the three voice actors, and the journey to the end was exciting and wholly surprising. I didn’t see it coming at all. Great characters (even the unlikeable ones!), interesting destinations and a riveting mystery. Recommended!