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Spaced

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Spaced is a British television sitcom created, written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica...

Winterdream

Chantal Gadoury

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This Christmas Eve… no creature was stirring… Except, maybe, a mouse. At long last, can...

Seven at Sea

Erik and Emily Orton

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A New York City family's remarkable story of how they gave up their urban life, packed up their...

Star Wars: Age of Republic - Villains

Jody Houser

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This is the Age of Star Wars - an epic series of adventures that unite your favorite characters from...

Star Wars: Age of Resistance - Heroes

Tom Taylor

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This is the Age of Star Wars - an epic series of adventures that unite your favorite characters from...

The Ghost Camper's Tall Tales (Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic #3)

Elizabeth Pantley

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A magic mirror. An enchanted world. A mysterious story-telling ghost. A hilarious, perpetually...

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My First Best Cousin Friend

Lynn C. Page

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A new children's books about cousins for kids! Your imagination will soar and inspire your...

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David McK (3801 KP) rated Fortune Favours the Brave (Rifleman Dando #1) in Books

Feb 8, 2026

Fortune Favours the Brave.

Otherwise known as Dando on the Delhi Ridge.

I actually read this as the first part in a 3-book compilation ("THE RIFLEMAN DANDO ADVENTURES three action-packed historical military thrillers"), thinking it may be something interesting, something akin to Bernard Cornwell's Napoleonic-set Sharpe series, or to Paul Fraser Collard's 'Jack Lark' series.

While the history may be - and, for me, was - interesting, unfortunately the plot around the rest of the story was not all that much so. I have to say, I also found the phonetic spelling "See 'ere" rather off-putting, although understandable in that the soldiers were usually drawn from the lower classes rather than the posh higher classes.

I also found the flashbacks to a pre-soldier Dando, and just how he came to be a redcoat, actually more interesting than the 'current events' of the Indian mutiny, for some reason.

Still, I'll read the next two as well at some point (but doubt I'll be going out of my way beyond that)