A Brief History of Florence Nightingale: And Her Real Legacy, a Revolution in Public Health
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Praise for Small's earlier work on Nightingale: 'Hugh Small, in a masterly piece of historical...
Damned Without Cause
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William is an honest hardworking agricultural labourer with strong family values and thanks God for...
Going to Extremes: The Adventurous Life of Harry de Windt
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Harry de Windt (1856-1933) was a man who, by any standards, was a personality, a marked presence in...
Downstream: A History and Celebration of Swimming the River Thames
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Stretching 215 miles from its source in Gloucestershire, through England's capital and across to the...
Zoe Nock (13 KP) rated The Confessions of Frannie Langton in Books
Jun 26, 2019
Sometimes a book just grabs you from the beginning, something tells you that treasure lies here. I felt that within a few paragraphs of The Confessions of Frannie Langton. Sara Collins prefaced the novel with an explanation of her enjoyment of stories from Georgian/Victorian era but also her disappoint that she didn’t feel represented in the literature from that time. Her love of literature and that lack of inclusion drove her to write a novel that filled a gap, filled a need for women like Frances Langton to have a voice.
And what a voice! The author embodies Frannie so well. The first thing that struck me was that Frannie’s voice shone through immediately. She sounds so authentic, within a few lines you are engaged and intrigued. So much of the prose is beautiful and evocative, truly poetic. Sara Collins describes the people and places so deftly, you sense the weight of a sultry Jamaican plantation and the drabness of a grey London suburb. You can almost taste the boiling sugar cane and fall under the sway of the delicious, devilish ‘Black Drop’. It’s difficult to read this book without imagining a BBC period drama, it really would make a good screen adaptation. There is no doubt that Collins is a gifted and accomplished writer, a weaver of words both seductive and threatening. I really enjoyed this novel and would like to read anything new from Sara Collins.
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In many senses the ostrich looms large - the tallest and heaviest of any living bird, a fully grown...
The Nowhere Child
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Little Dorrit
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A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over...
Merissa (13668 KP) rated Love Potions (Warlocks MacGregor #1) in Books
Jul 5, 2023
Well, she did, but I didn't. I love this author but I only found this book to be okay. Whether it was the whiplash changes of feelings, to the "I'm looking in his eyes so I can't think," or the multitude of clan members that seemed to roll into one, or even stupid behaviour. It was just too much crazy chaos for me.
The world-building was good, giving the reader insight into how the warlocks 'paid' for their magic. I didn't really see much character-building though. They just... were, and that was that.
If you like Urban Fantasy and/or Rom-Com, then you will probably love this book. For me, I enjoyed it but I won't be continuing with the series.
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Merissa
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Jul 5, 2023