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Began with THE SEVEN SISTERS - LUCINDA RILEY - and now working through the subsequent 'Sister' books.
Lucinda Riley is a new author for me and the way in which she weaves fiction around historical fact is fascinating.
A brilliant read for anyone interested in family history.
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Sounds good! I've started THE No.1 Ladies Detective Agency Series. Have that and book 2, Tears of the Giraffe. So far so good!!
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The Tales of the Elders of Ireland - Ann Dooley and Harry Roe. A retelling of the myths of Ireland
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I'm revisiting George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four.
I first read it when I was a teenager and it is one I love to read again once in a while.
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Sounds good! I've started THE No.1 Ladies Detective Agency Series. Have that and book 2, Tears of the Giraffe. So far so good!!
THE No.1 Ladies Detective Agency Series is available as plays on Radio 4 extra. Billy and I have been listening to the plays and both enjoy them
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Just finished H.M.S. Marlborough Will Enter Harbour" by Nicholas Monsarrat.
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In 'H.M.S. Marlborough Will Enter Harbour', an old sloop, homeward bound, is torpedoed, leaving her guns out of action, more than three-quarters of her crew dead, and radio contact impossible. But her valiant captain steadfastly refuses to surrender his ship... In 'Leave Cancelled', an army officer and his young wife concentrate their passionate love into twenty-four hours, knowing that it might be their last chance... And in 'Heavy Rescue', an old soldier, having lived on the scrap heap for more than twenty years, finds that gallantry is once again in demand when he becomes leader of a Heavy Rescue Squad...
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I am between books,but must make a decision before my hospital trip tomorrow. And I have so many to choose from.....
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Before my Kindle died on me last night as I'd forgotten to charge it up, I'd started reading 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz'
"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist),
tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners..."
This is a novel based on true facts - author's note: "In 2003, I was introduced to an elderly gentleman "who might just have a story worth telling". The day I met Lale Sokolov changed my life, as our friendship grew and he embarked on a journey of self scrutiny, entrusting the inner most details of his life during the Holocaust."
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Sounds good Annie, Might have to have a look at that one.