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Cut to pieces: The Butcher of Smithfield by Susanna Gregory(2008) | Only Two Rs
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Thoughts and discussion on reading and writing with a historical flavour. The giant under the snow, John Gordon (1968). Jolly good fun: London Pride, by Joanna Cannan (1939) →. Cut to pieces: The Butcher of Smithfield by Susanna Gregory(2008). I have previously been much enamoured of Gregory’s Mathew Bartholomew series set in mid 14th century Cambridge, but I hadn’t yet come across Thomas Chaloner. The Butcher of Smithfield. By Edward Marston and this is far superior. Chaloner even has a blog! Judith Lev...
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Stabbed through the heart: The Wounded Name by DK Broster (1922) | Only Two Rs
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Thoughts and discussion on reading and writing with a historical flavour. Gossips Galore: Detection Unlimited by Georgette Heyer (1953). Birds of a feather: The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black aka John Banville (2007) →. Stabbed through the heart: The Wounded Name by DK Broster (1922). This is another of Broster’s adventure tales set during the French Revolution, similar to Mr Rowl. Subtext, which I am beginning to realise is true of much of Broster’s work, although I’m sure this wasn’t intentional. 3 resp...
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Only Two Rs | Thoughts & discussion on reading & writing with a historical flavour | Page 2
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Thoughts and discussion on reading and writing with a historical flavour. Newer posts →. Some other book blogs. I thought it would be useful to list a couple of other book blogs which I read regularly, and which might be of interest to readers of this offering. Is as voracious a reader as I am. She is certainly much better at writing up reviews of what she reads. Covers a wide range of books, veering towards fantasy. Kissing cousins: Next of Kin by John Boyne (2006). Continue reading →. Whichever, I find...
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Kissing cousins: Next of Kin by John Boyne (2006) | Only Two Rs
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Thoughts and discussion on reading and writing with a historical flavour. Shooting Lions and Tigers: Manly Pursuits by Ann Harries (1999). Some other book blogs →. Kissing cousins: Next of Kin by John Boyne (2006). Set against a background of the abdication crises of 1936, with the plot deftly woven between real events, this erudite and entertaining historical thriller has a neat twist at the end. Other novels by John Boyne reviewed here:. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Some other book blogs →. You are ...
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Louise Gerard | Only Two Rs
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Thoughts and discussion on reading and writing with a historical flavour. Shades of Unreason: Life’s Shadow Show, Louise Gerard (1916) →. My distaste notwithstanding, she was very popular in her day, being one of the fledgling Mills and Boon’s most successful authors and at least two of her novels were made into movies. Son of the Sahara. Was even reviewed by the New York Times in 1924. And also in Jay Dixon’s book The Romance fiction of Mills and Boon. A Golden Centipede 1910. The Hyena of Kallu 1910.
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Ex Libris | Only Two Rs
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Thoughts and discussion on reading and writing with a historical flavour. Rather than build up a list of links to books I liked and enjoyed in the sidebar, it’s probably better (given the likely eventual number) to devote a separate page to them. Wilfred Owen: a new biography (Dominic Hibberd). This comprehensive look at Owen’s life is well worth reading. The Somme (Peter Hart). Forests of paper have been written about the Somme some better than others. This is one of the better ones. No writer should be...
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Update | Only Two Rs
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Thoughts and discussion on reading and writing with a historical flavour. Writing worth reading #2. Finally got around to updating all my reading over the last few months. There are a couple of good posts there at least. Certainly one on Georgette Heyer whom I’ve been re-reading steadily, and another one on fantasy writer Raymond E Feist. Quite when I will get around to writing them I don’t know, but you never know, I might. This entry was posted in General. Writing worth reading #2. The Black R….
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Birds of a feather: The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black aka John Banville (2007) | Only Two Rs
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Thoughts and discussion on reading and writing with a historical flavour. Stabbed through the heart: The Wounded Name by DK Broster (1922). Shooting Lions and Tigers: Manly Pursuits by Ann Harries (1999) →. Birds of a feather: The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black aka John Banville (2007). I was intrigued by the first novel in this new series by the pseudonymous Black, Christine Falls. This entry was posted in Crime. Stabbed through the heart: The Wounded Name by DK Broster (1922). I’m wondering, thoug...
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Reading | Only Two Rs
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Thoughts and discussion on reading and writing with a historical flavour. Writing Worth Reading →. It’s been quite a while since I posted anything here. I am still regularly updating the reading page however. When I look at what I have been reading, and what remains on Mount TBR (currently about fifty books or so) it is the usual mix of historical fiction and older ‘classic’ novels and literature, with a bit of modern crime and non fiction thrown in. I still have one Louise Gerard. Enter your comment here.