Patrika Salmon
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
Age of Bronze, Volume 3: Betrayal, Part One
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultMilitary
Graphic used to mean a novel of Lady Chatterley’s ilk, but now it means what geriatric me calls a comic. Age of ...Read Review
Troubled Waters
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This is the 14th in the Alan Lewrie series, Lewrie now being a captain in His Majesty’s Navy of the late 18th ...Read Review
The Night Birds
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American history, the natives versus the new settlers, does not make pretty reading. The Night Birds is a fictional telling of the Great ...Read Review
The Star Garden
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Turner shares with us another episode in the life of Sarah Prine, a widow living in the Arizona Territory in 1906. Based on the ...Read Review
Mrs Jeffries and the Feast of St Stephen
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As described by the publisher, Mrs Jeffries is the Miss Marple of Victorian mystery. Based on this, I was keen to read the ...Read Review
A Tale of Gold
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If you want to know about the Alaskan Gold Rush and digging for gold, this is the book to read. Written for young ...Read Review
The Flaw in the Blood
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This is a strange book, a thriller set in Victoria’s Britain of 1861, but one with very high-class villains. It’s based on ...Read Review
Little Klein
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This is a book which many children will enjoy. A youngest brother, Little Klein, struggles to catch up with his three older brothers. ...Read Review
Dawn of Fear
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Susan Cooper always writes well, and this is one of her deceptively simple books. On the face of it, the story is an ...Read Review
