Patrika Salmon
Pelican Road
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Howard Bahr has made a name for himself in American literary circles with his three novels about the American Civil War. In Pelican ...Read Review
The Road to Vengeance (The Strongbow Saga, Book Three)
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This is the third book in Roberts’ Viking adventure series and begins where the last book finished. Recommended as reading for the over-fourteens, ...Read Review
Willows for Weeping
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
There is always a problem being an adult reviewer of a children’s novel; one is pickier than the young readers the novel ...Read Review
The Great Wall
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Man doesn’t mince words. This is another author anxious to show that well- established ideas are more historical myth than fact. ...Read Review
Siege of Heaven
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Harper writes about that charade of religious fervour, the First Crusade of 1096-98, in all its ghastly violence and hypocrisy. The reader is ...Read Review
Lavinia
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I’ve always wished I could write Ms. Le Guin’s lucid prose. In so few words she can create a world and ...Read Review
The Apostate’s Tale
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Margaret Frazer improves with each book. This is her seventeenth Dame Frevisse novel, and it has more depth then some of the earlier ...Read Review
The End of East
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Lee’s book, first published in Canada by Knopf as a “New Faces of Fiction” novel, is her first novel, full of promise. ...Read Review
The Fire Waker
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AdventureMilitaryMystery/Crime
The second in what, judging by the last page, is intended to be a series, The Fire Waker should have everything going for ...Read Review
The Misremembered Man
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I could never laugh at “Fawlty Towers.” John Cleese’s performance as a man falling apart was painful for me, not funny. I ...Read Review
