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Agnes
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The romance between an American physics student and a young journalist. The student persuades her...
Le grand coeur
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BESTSELLER. Historical novel set at the end of the Middle Ages mixing fact and fiction to tell the...
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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated Hamnet in Books
Oct 7, 2020
This novel was just short listed for the 2020 Women's Fiction Prize, and rightly so! You can read my #Bookreview here to find out why I think it deserves to win!
https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2020/04/24/net-and-let/
https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2020/04/24/net-and-let/
The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated This Should Be Written in the Present Tense in Books
Oct 7, 2020
This very unusual novel is an excellent character study of a young woman at the crossroads of her life. Read my review of this fascinating work of fiction here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2014/10/21/what-is-and-what-is-not/
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Oct 8, 2020
The Davidson Affair
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Documentary style fiction/ fantasy in the medium of modern television that depicts Christ's...
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Erika (17789 KP) rated A Spy Among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal in Books
Feb 18, 2018
If you're looking for a non-fiction book that reads like fiction, this is definitely a must-read.
Kim Philby is infamous, he was responsible for compromising countless agents/missions from the 1930s to the 1960s. He's the inspiration behind a lot of spy fiction, one of the biggest ones being Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The book has a few main sources, Philby himself in his strange memoir written after he fled to Moscow, Nicholas Elliot, a friend and co-worker from MI-6, and James Angleton, also a friend from the CIA. Of course, hindsight is 20/20, but there were so many signs of treachery, it's hard to believe that it took 30 years to finally get a confession from him.
And, I mean, come on, the dude decided on giving himself the nickname of Kim, like the character in Rudyard Kipling's novel.
Kim Philby is infamous, he was responsible for compromising countless agents/missions from the 1930s to the 1960s. He's the inspiration behind a lot of spy fiction, one of the biggest ones being Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The book has a few main sources, Philby himself in his strange memoir written after he fled to Moscow, Nicholas Elliot, a friend and co-worker from MI-6, and James Angleton, also a friend from the CIA. Of course, hindsight is 20/20, but there were so many signs of treachery, it's hard to believe that it took 30 years to finally get a confession from him.
And, I mean, come on, the dude decided on giving himself the nickname of Kim, like the character in Rudyard Kipling's novel.