The Midwife of Auschwitz
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Auschwitz, 1943: As I held the tiny baby in my arms, my fingers traced the black tattoo etched...
Left Neglected
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The moving second novel from the author of international hit Still Alice, which explores the life of...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Merchant's House (Wesley Peterson #1) in Books
Jul 19, 2021
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The Merchants House ( Wesley Peterson book 1)
By Kate Ellis
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Detective Sergeant (and amateur archaeologist) Wesley Peterson hoped that a transfer from the lively but frantic pace of London to the bucolic river port of Tradmouth would have a positive effect on both his personal and professional lives. But Wes's first day on the job has hardly begun before he finds himself heading up an investigation into the murder of an unidentified young woman whose face has been brutally disfigured. And it's not long before Wes discovers that the Tradmouth force is as hopelessly overstretched as London's Met; in addition to the unidentified murder victim, the local police have been embroiled in a frantic search for a missing child. As Wes and his fellow detectives try to determine the identity of the young woman in hopes of catching her murderer, a strange parallel emerges between this case and a nearby archeological dig being conducted by Wes's college friend. Two skeletons have been unearthed in the ruins of a seventeenth-century merchant's house, one of them the apparent victim of a four-hundred-year-old murder. At first Wes is interested on a purely personal level, but strange connections between the murdered girl, the missing child, and the murder that occurred four hundred years ago soon begin to surface. Wes must act quickly to prove his suspicions, before another body joins those already residing in the dust of the merchant's house.
I struggled and struggled it had so many issues and the book was quite boring!
I will never encourage anyone to not read a book I think it’s important that people try as many books as possible. This is just my opinion.
Granta 110: Sex
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Sex is our oldest obsession. For as long as we've been doing it, it has been used as a mark of...
The Woman Underwater
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No one disappears without a trace…. Don’t try to tell Victoria Sands that time heals all...
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ClareR (5726 KP) rated The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue in Books
May 29, 2023
Until the day she meets Henry in present day New York.
Honestly, I don’t know why she had such a problem with the god she struck the deal with. He’s clearly rather dishy - dark, brooding, very powerful…
I’ve seen this described as Faustian, and I suppose it is. She makes a deal with a devil to live for longer. Except her deal has no time limit, or at least only the limit that she’ll give it.
I thoroughly enjoyed this. The Henry character was interesting as well, especially after his reveal.
This author has written a lot of YA apparently, and this is her first adult novel. It’s definitely worth keeping my eyes peeled for whatever she comes up with next!
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'A lovely piece of work; finely researched and beautifully, atmospherically written' Sarah Dunant A...
Nowhere's Child: The Inspiring Story of How One Woman Survived Hitler's Breeding Camps and Found an Irish Home
Kari Rosvall and Naomi Linehan
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Up until the age of 64, much of Kari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery. Then, one day, a...
The Mammoth Book of Weird Records
Geoff Tibballs and Jim Theobald
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Everyone's heard of Usain Bolt, but how many people know about Dineka Maguire? Like Bolt, the Irish...
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Farewell (2019) in Movies
Oct 2, 2019
You expect a film about grief, and to some extent this is one, although it's really a chronicle of grief foretold, as the characters anticipate a loss to come. It's also about cultural differences, family life, and the way in which people routinely tell lies to each other every single day simply in order to keep life livable. The film skates along over the top of all this and treats it all with a light and delicate touch. Not an absolute tear-jerker, I thought, but there are some very touching moments (then again, I may be emotionally atrophied, who knows). Not a huge amount actually happens but the film has clearly been made with intelligence and skill.