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The End of Time (Crispin #3)
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After the death of their beloved mentor, Bear, Crispin and Troth are more desperate than ever,...
Blood on the Tide
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Blood on the Tide is a story of the sea and boats, murder and Nazis and takes the reader through...
Night Soldiers
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Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is...
Absolution: A Leine Basso Thriller
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There's one sure way to stop a terrorist... Leine Basso has severed ties with everyone she loves...
The Country of Others
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1944. After the Liberation, Mathilde leaves France to join her husband in Morocco. But life here...
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The Deserter: A Tale of the Foreign Legion
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Algeria 1908. Gil Vincente is a Boer War veteran, broken and adrift on the rough streets of...
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David McK (3883 KP) rated Around the world in 80 days in TV
Jan 30, 2022
One of Jules Vernes most famous novels, and the inspiration for many a movie (and even a 80s cartoon).
I've never seen or heard of a TV series until this one, which - in retrospect - actually surprised me quite a bit, as you think the story would (and does) lend itself perfectly to the episodic nature of the journey.
This adaptation stars David Tennant in the lead role, alongside strong support from Ibrahim Koma as the French valet Passepartout and Leonie Benesch as the gender flipped/reimagined journalist Abigail Fix (instead of Inspector Fix), while still keeping its late Victorian setting.
Yes, you know how it is going to end.
Still very enjoyable!
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Time's Convert in Books
Jan 15, 2022
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Times Convert
By Deborah Harkness
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Marcus Whitmore was made a vampire in the eighteenth century. Over two hundred years later, he finds himself in love with Phoebe Taylor, a human who decides to become a vampire herself.
And with tradition enforcing separation from Marcus, Phoebe's transformation will prove as challenging now as it was for Marcus when he first encountered Matthew de Clermont, his sire.
Time's Convert moves with epic sweep from the battlefields of the American Revolutionary War, through the treachery of the French Revolution to a bloody finale in New Orleans.
This is one of my favourite books as it follows on from one of my favourite series The All Souls Trilogy!