Russian Winters: The Story of Andrei Kanchelskis
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Russian Winters by Andrei Kanchelskis tells the story of the last great footballer to come out of...
Who Built Scotland: A History of the Nation in Twenty-Five Buildings
Alexander McCall Smith, James Robertson, Alistair Moffat and Kathleen Jamie
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Experience a new history of Scotland told through its places. Writers Kathleen Jamie, Alexander...
Take Me (The Untouchables, #1)
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From a USA TODAY Bestselling Author comes the first book in the suspenseful, erotic romance series:...
Christie's: The Jewellery Archives Revealed
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For centuries, the stories of the world's great jewellery collections have lain hidden within the...
William Hunter and His Eighteenth-Century Cultural Worlds: The Anatomist and the Fine Arts
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The eminent physician and anatomist Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) made an important and significant...
Aled Jones: My Story
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Aled Jones, a choirboy with a remarkable voice, achieved more as a teenager than many adult singers...
TheBookMother (105 KP) rated My Name is Leon in Books
Jun 25, 2019
You begin to really imagine how he feels living in a neglected home, being passed around and watching everyone he cares about leave him.
One of the most heartwrenching bits of the book is where is baby brother whom he cared and doted on is adopted without him.
He then finds a supportive foster family but once again cruel fate intervenes and she is taken into hospital.
He is such a lost little boy, the pain he is feeling literally radiates from the pages. The use of emotive language is stunning.
There were times I was close to tears and I had to keep reading to find out if he got the happy ending he so deserved.
The author sets the scene so beautifully and I really did get taken back to the 80s from the talk of toys, TV and the Royal Wedding.
A surprise from the book was the coverage of the Black Riots and you do really feel for all those involved and also the confusion and fear that rippled through different communities I felt the author portrayed this really well.
If I really had to find a negative it would be that at times it was a tad predictable, but it didn't really ruin my experience reading this book.
I did consume this in a couple of days and it was very powerful it was one of the most emotive books I have read in a while.
I thoroughly recommend it, but best get the tissues on hand.
My Father in His Suitcase
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John (Kay) Corner left home in 1960, aged 19. He would never see his father, E. J. H. Corner, again....
The Room on Rue Amélie
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For fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale and Martha Hall Kelly’s Lilac Girls, this powerful...
Merissa (12051 KP) rated A Tale of Two Kingdoms (Knights of Black Swan #6) in Books
Apr 3, 2023 (Updated Apr 10, 2023)
This is a romance primarily but it also deals with issues like prejudice, history, war and even all of the above in one family! This book does not disappoint on any level and the standard of Victoria Danann's writing just keeps on getting better. No, this isn't as long as the others and NO this definitely doesn't affect the quality. It just meant that I was able to sit and read this in one sitting with no interfering habits, like sleeping, getting in the way!
This is part of a series and I would highly recommend that you read them in order. As a taster, the first book - The Familiar Stranger - is FREE. Get this one, take a deep breath, enter another dimension and never look back.
Merissa
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April 10, 2021