The 19th Wife
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Jordan returns from California to Utah to visit his mother in jail. As a teenager he was expelled...
The Stranger's Child: Picador Classic
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With an introduction by Anthony Quinn In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge...
Brecht Plays: v. 8: Antigone of Sophocles, The Days of the Commune, Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress
Bertolt Brecht, Tom Kuhn and David J. Constantine
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The latest volume in Methuen's Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into...
Feathers in the Snow
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Beneath a sky full of stars a decision is made. This decision sets off an astonishing chain of...
AJaneClark (3975 KP) rated Midnight Sun (Twilight, #5) in Books
Aug 12, 2020
Fans of The Twilight Saga will know this story well, but the retelling from the POV of Edward, is actually very eye opening.
Previous works by Meyer were rough around the edges, and not very polished, the language used not conveying the nature of such a largely followed saga... Midnight Sun is very well written, the language and style more mature. However I did find that there were too many pages per chapter, thus making “breaktimes” seem too far off...
I enjoyed the novel humanising the Cullen clan a little more, whilst still showing off their obvious vampiric differences! Not to mention being inside the head of someone who is typically in everyone else’s heads...
Wonder Woman: Year One
Greg Rucka, Nicola Scott, Bilquis Evely and Romulo Fajardo Jr.
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New York Times best-selling writer Greg Rucka continues his return to WONDER WOMAN! The team of...
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The Princes of Ireland (The Dublin Saga, #1)
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Brilliantly weaving impeccable historical research with stirring storytelling, Edward Rutherfurd...
The Serpent and the Light (Abscondita Est Magicae Book 1)
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The first novel set in Bo Luellen's richly imagined world of Abscondita Est Magicae welcomes readers...
Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Old Republic, Vol. 2
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Daze of hate, knights of suffering! Fugitive Zayne Carrick joins forces with the Jedi Masters who...
ClareR (6118 KP) rated The Silence of Scheherazade in Books
Nov 29, 2022
We follow four families as their lives are changed forever when the Ottoman Empire is torn apart, and the city of Smyrna is at the front and centre of the trouble and violence.
This novel covers about 17 years from 1905, and follows four families from very different backgrounds: Levantine, Greek, Turkish and Armenian.
Scheherazade is born in September 1905, and never knows her mother as she is abandoned. An Indian spy (sent from the British) is who will tie them all together.
My thoughts:
I love an epic, sprawling story, and following the lives of four families certainly gives a lot of scope for that.
It was fascinating to learn about the different cultures of the four families, and of course Smyrna was a main character in itself.
It’s a book to be immersed in, with the sights and smells beautifully described.
Just my kind of book!