The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes: The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China
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The Han Empire equalled Rome in the scale of its territories and subject populations. With superior...
Sons of Ishmael: Muslims Through European Eyes in the Middle Ages
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John Tolan is one of the world's foremost scholars in the field of early Christian/Muslim...
The Political Thought of Abdullah Ocalan: Kurdistan, Woman's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism
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These are the essential writings of a man who inspired a new, egalitarian socialist regime in the...
Widening Income Inequality
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Seidel is the great controversialist of American poetry. Dubbed a "Transgressive adventurer," a...
Middle Eastern Food Recipes
Food & Drink and Health & Fitness
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Need some Middle Eastern recipes that you can cook at home? Middle Eastern Recipes provides an...
Standing Alone (Matt Standing #2)
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How can you follow orders if those orders are to kill a friend? A Navy SEAL has gone rogue,...
Clair (5 KP) rated My Sister's Bones in Books
Sep 29, 2017
Kate Rafter is a journalist who works in some of worst places in the world, seeing some of the world's worst atrocities. She returns home on the death of her mother. Her sister Sally has never left Herne Bay and is an alcoholic, who hates Kate. The book is split between the main events of the story and scenes in a police station where Kate is being assessed on her mental health. We know that Kate keeps hearing and seeing a young boy in the family garden - but her experiences in Syria which have left her traumatised means that no one believes her.
Marketed as a rival to The Girl on the Train (I wish they wouldn't do that), I enjoyed this book and would ideally have given it 3.5 stars.
Negatives first...I didn't think it was that well written, there were plot holes that annoyed me and I found the characters one dimensional.
BUT the story was fast moving and intriguing and then there is a major twist which I didn't see coming which made me gasp.
Train to Nowhere: One Woman's Adventures in WWII
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Train to Nowhere is a war memoir seen through the sardonic eyes of Anita Leslie, a funny and...
Call Me Dave: The Unauthorised Biography of David Cameron
Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott
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After a decade as Conservative Party leader and six years as Prime Minister, he remains an enigma to...
Ever the Diplomat: Confessions of a Foreign Office Mandarin
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In this entertaining and engaging memoir, former ambassador Sherard Cowper-Coles lifts the lid on...