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Old 16-04-2015, 06:00
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The Last Fighting Tommy - The life of Harry Patch, last veteran of the trenches 1898 - 2009 by Harry Patch and Richard Van Emden
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Old 16-04-2015, 18:42
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Best Kept Secret - Jeffrey Archer - book 3 of the Clifton Chronicles - I love getting stuck in to these family sagas and I'm really enjoying this series.
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Old 17-04-2015, 08:25
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The Forgotten Legion by Ben Kane

Have gotten really into Roman stuff lately, Douglas Jackson and Anthony Riches. Hopefully this will be just as good!
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Old 17-04-2015, 08:56
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Royal Escape - Georgette Heyer
Splendid account of King Charles ll fleeing from the Battle of Worcester, and seeking safe houses in order to reach the Channel to sail to safety in France.
Wonderful characters litter the story, Charles sparkling wit, is a joy to read, and as this book was published in 1938, held up remarkably well.
Must read more of Heyer in the future.
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Old 17-04-2015, 18:20
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"The Humans" by Matt Haig.
"The Year 1000" by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger.
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Old 18-04-2015, 17:25
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Lucie Whitehouse - Before we met
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Old 18-04-2015, 21:48
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Harriet Said by Beryl Bainbridge.

I'm also going through an early volume of Harold Pinter plays I picked up online.
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Old 20-04-2015, 04:34
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Just Me - Sheila Hancock
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Old 21-04-2015, 14:58
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Just started 'Daughter' - Jane Shemilt
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Old 21-04-2015, 15:07
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Old 21-04-2015, 16:09
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The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. Alex Ross
The landscape of twentieth-century classical music is a wild one: this was a period in which music fragmented into apparently divergent strands, each influenced by its own composers, performers and musical innovations. In this comprehensive tour, Alex Ross, music critic for the ‘New Yorker’, explores the people and places that shaped musical development: Adams to Zweig, Brahms to Björk, pre-First World War Vienna to ‘Nixon in China’.

Above all, this unique portrait of an exceptional era weaves together art, politics and cultural history to show how twentieth-century classical music was both a symptom and a source of immense social change
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Old 22-04-2015, 16:46
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Just started 'Daughter' - Jane Shemilt
Ha! I've just finished From the Cradle Been sneakily reading it at work all day on my kindle I have to say I really enjoyed it and all the twists in it


Not sure whether to go back to Girl on the Train now, start Stolen Child or else look for something new
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Old 22-04-2015, 18:29
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The Moon's a Balloon by David Niven
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Old 22-04-2015, 22:27
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Just finished Harlan Coben's Missing You. Awful 2/10.
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Old 23-04-2015, 11:32
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Normal - Graeme Cameron. Told from the first person point of view of a serial killer. Bit disappointed, finding is curiously uninvolving and flat, but the majority on Amazon loved it, so it may just be me.
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Old 23-04-2015, 14:42
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Susan Hill - Dolly
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Old 23-04-2015, 17:26
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I've been re-reading Diana Gabaldon books as I've been watching Outlander. So far I've read Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager and Drums of Autumn. Having a break from those now though.

About to start The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.
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Old 23-04-2015, 19:02
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CL Taylor - The Accident
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Old 23-04-2015, 19:25
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"The Humans" by Matt Haig.
"The Year 1000" by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger.
The Humans is a great book, I think it is being made into a film.

Currently reading Mr Penumbra's 24 hour bookstore
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Old 23-04-2015, 21:45
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I am reading the Viz so funny lol
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Old 23-04-2015, 22:47
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CL Taylor - The Accident
might be silly considering the title but is this good so far? what really is it about?
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Old 24-04-2015, 00:32
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Breaking the Silence - Diane Chamberlain.

Slow build up, but unusual and intriguing story. Well written, but a bit too slow in parts for my taste. That said, the subject matter really interested me.
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Old 24-04-2015, 04:49
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The Moon's a Balloon by David Niven
"" One of the very best books ever. Read it a few years back along with Niven's 'Bring On The Empty Horses' ..............

I am going to read both of them again before long.
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Old 24-04-2015, 20:14
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might be silly considering the title but is this good so far? what really is it about?
I'm quite enjoying it, a woman's daughter is in a coma and the mother is convinced the cause wasn't an accident. There is flashback/ diary entries which are really good
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Old 25-04-2015, 18:21
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Just finished book 3 of the Clifton Chronicles series by Jeffrey Archer and I'm going to read a few other books before I move onto book 4 so I've started The Ice Twins by SK Tremayne.
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