Kagame: The President of Rwanda Speaks
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Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Ben Affleck, Natalie Portman, the CEOs of Starbucks and Visa,...
The Encyclopaedia of Liars and Deceivers
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No one likes to be taken in, but stories of deception concerning others are compelling. It can be...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Brutal World of Victorian Medicine
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The gripping story of a visionary British surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine...
The Catholics: The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day
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"The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of...
Don't Look Now
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Don't Look Now, released in 1973, confirmed director Nicolas Roeg as one of the most stylish and...
ClareR (5674 KP) rated Her Last Holiday in Books
May 16, 2021
Fran, a 50-something single, teacher, is roped into attending a Wellness retreat by her mother - a retreat run by the same man who ran the one in Gozo where Fran’s sister, Jenna, went missing two years previously. The male counsellor, Tom, has just served two years in prison for the deaths of two other people on the retreat, and his wife wants him to get back to work as soon as possible. This may not have been a wise move.
I liked the flashbacks to Jenna’s retreat - there was as much tension in these parts as in her sister Frans present day parts. Neither past events or the present day make it any easier to guess what might have happened to Jenna, but there’s definitely something fishy going on in both timelines.
There were parts where I felt it best to leave my rational thoughts at the door - but hey, this is fiction. If I wanted real life, I’d read a newspaper (ahem. Or something). Many was the time over the 10 day period of reading this, where I was so frustrated at the end of the stave - I just wanted to read on. It’s definitely a book written for a day long binge read!!
The Emperor of All Maladies
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Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011...
Deadly Beautiful: Vanishing Killers of the Animal Kingdom
Liana Joy Christensen and Ian Faulkner
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Did you know that the humble marmot is responsible for more than one billion human deaths? Or that...
Xanderath (690 KP) rated 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019) in Movies
May 19, 2020
With the Old Breed
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The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC This was a brutish, primitive hatred, as...