The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
David Bradshaw and Ford Madox Ford
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Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an...
The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery: The Fourth Charlie Mortdecai Novel
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The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery - the fourth Charlie Mortdecai novel, soon to be a major film...
The Plague Road
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The third John Grey historical mystery 1665, and the Great Plague has London in its grip. Everyone...
Villette
Charlotte Brontë and Helen Cooper
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Villette is Charlotte Bronte's powerful autobiographical novel of one woman's search for true love,...
Mrs Engels
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Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award Love is a bygone idea, centuries-worn. There are things...
Can the Gods Cry?
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With one exception, these short stories were written for this collection, and they tentatively look...
On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life
Lesley Blanch and Georgia de Chamberet
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Most famous for The Wilder Shores of Love, her book about four women travellers, Lesley Blanch was a...
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2165 KP) rated Billy Boyle in Books
Jun 19, 2020
I’ve heard about this series several times over the years, but it was a friend recommending it to me recently that pushed me to finally start the series. I’m glad I did. I’ve always loved World War II, and I already learned something I didn’t know about it thanks to this book. The author has obviously done his research; unfortunately, sometimes that slows down the story. I’m torn on that because I did love the characters, and I loved seeing how everything from this time was impacting them. Most of the characters are fictional, but they feel like they could be real. Billy was especially wonderful, and I hope we see more of several of the characters as the series progresses. While not a cozy, the book does keep the language and violence to a minimum, which I appreciated. I also loved Billy’s restraint with the women he met – I found that very refreshing. The tone mixes some humor with more serious themes for a richer book. Now that I’ve met Billy, I have a long way to go to catch up, and I’m looking forward to the journey.
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Gordon: Victorian Hero
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Charles George Gordon was the preeminent military hero of the late-Victorian British Empire. A...