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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, 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 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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