book-review
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There’s very little Martin Edwards doesn’t know about crime fiction. He has been writing since the 1990s, starting with the excellent Liverpool based Harry Devlin series. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of Golden Age detective fiction and much of what came before and after too. Like a good architectural historian he knows what makes a
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A review by Connie Hawley Having already dipped a toe into the works of V. E. Schwab with This Savage Song (2016) I went into the world of Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil with high hopes, and was not disappointed. At over 500 pages this is not a short novel, but despite my
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Old Baggage, Crooked Heart, V for Victory is the most charming and moving trilogy. Crooked Heart was written first and this book and the next feature Noel, a small boy becoming a teenager across the books. His parentage is obscure, especially to him, and he is adrift in the world. Piercingly intelligent, he has taught
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As my Typead blog has dispppeared I will be republishing a few of my favourite blogs. This is another of my earlier reviews. High Wages by Dorothy Whipple is a charming story of a woman in the ‘man’s world of women’s clothing’, as Jane Brocket puts it in the introduction to the Persephone edition. Set in
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As my Typead blog has dispppeared I will be republishing a few of my favourite blogs. This, from 2009, is another of my earlier reviews. Since this review Alis Hawkins has written two excellent mystery series, the Teifi Valley Coroner and the Oxford Mysteries, both set in the nineteenth century. Testament by Alis Hawkins is sensationally good
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As my Typead blog has dispppeared I will be republishing a few of my favourite blogs. This, from 2020, is a review of the first in series by one of my favourite authors. The series now extends to five novels with latest Hemlock Bay recently out in paperback. Whenever I pick up a historical novel,
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As my Typead blog has dispppeared I will be republishing a few of my favourite blogs. This, from 2010, is another of my earlier reviews. I find it very hard when handling my book stock not to get caught up with reading sometimes! On this occasion the book I couldn’t put down was A Childhood in
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As my Typead blog has dispppeared I will be republishing a few of my favourite blogs. This, from 2008, is one of my earliest reviews. The poetic and romantic relationship of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath has fascinated fans of both their work since the 1970s. The story of the smart girl from Boston, piercingly
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As my Typead blog has dispppeared I will be republishing a few of my favourite blogs. This, from 2014, is a review of one of Jospehine Tey’s more controversial novels. A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey is her second crime novel. The body of a beautiful woman is found early one morning at a deserted
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