Waypoints: Seascapes and Stories of Scotland's West Coast
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Adventure, memoir, storytelling and celebration of all things maritime meet in Waypoints, a...
The Mabinogi
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'Here at the turn of the leaf a horseman is riding through the space between one world and another...
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
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In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet...
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, Retold by Elli Woollard, Illustrated by Marta Altes
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Delightfully retold in humorous verse, with beautiful illustrations throughout, this is a beautiful...
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
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Recently widowed Poldi moves to Sicily in order to quietly drink herself to death with a sea view....
Babushka's Journey: The Dark Road to Stalin's Wartime Camps
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This is the story of a grandmother, and what happened to her and to Eastern Europe in World War II....
TravelersWife4Life (31 KP) rated Besotted (The Fairest Maidens, #3) in Books
Feb 23, 2021
I would say this is my favorite book in the series but then again, the others were good too :) I give Besotted 5 out of 5 stars.
*I volunteered to read this book in return for my honest feedback. The thoughts and opinions expressed within are my own.
Bethr1986 (305 KP) rated Burn Baby Burn (Fairytales of the Myth #1) in Books
Apr 30, 2021
I was absolutely hooked with this book ,I actually was disappointed when i realised that id finished the book, It felt that id only just started reading it! i find it very interesting some of the things learnt like i genuinely didn't know that a slave master in roman times were actually known as Domina/Dominus.
It certainly is steamy but i must say the sex scene of the threesome did actually bring tears to my eyes bloomin eck! A rather rough session!
I was fascinated with the growth of Ella and the discovery of her true self and the things she had hidden.
I cannot wait for the next book in this series deffinatly one i am going to continue to read, i am also going to look at some of Miranda's other series as they too look fantastic
David McK (3547 KP) rated The Winter King in Books
Sep 4, 2020
These are also novels that - despite being the author's own personal favourites of the (many) novels he has written - I have struggled with, never really getting into them or feeling any connection with the story or character in the same way as I do towards Uhtred of Bebbanburg, or to Richard Sharpe.
I don't know whether that's because these are so different than I was originally expecting (the magic and mysticism of the tales, here, are more to do with superstition and ignorance), or whether because it may be fairer to call these a tale of Derfel, who narrates the story in later life in a monastery and how - here- he first came to the service of Arthur, the King that never was.
Maybe also because of the Dark Ages setting, which - obviously, since so little is known of that period (hence the name Dark Ages!) - means that Cornwell can't really bring history to life like he does in most of his other works?
Between Burning Worlds (System Divine #2)
Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell
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Laterre is on the brink of war. The Third Estate are rioting against the injustices of a corrupt...
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