Category: Jane Thynne
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OK well I finally have a floor, pipes replaced, working water heater and lagged pipes and all is ok. I have contacted my insurance company and, as yet, no response to letter or emails so I feel another Elaine Special Letter is due to go to the CEO. I am giving them two more days…
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“Someone had crashed their car inside the Admiralty Arch – the folly of trying to manoeuvre a large Austin 7 through such a narrow space alongside a bicycle. Voices were raised indignantly, a man was shouting and the traffic was backing up…….not far away from this commotion Hubert Newman made his way erratically along Pall…
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I have just realised the days are moving quickly and I will soon be in 2021 before I talk about my reading this year. So here goes with the second lot. The Crown in Crisis; the Countdown to the Abdication by Alexander Larman. This is one of the best, if not the best, of all…
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Hello everyone Forgive the "shouting" in the title but I wanted to attract your attention. Several people have commented on Random and I have also received email queries regarding this edition. I did not mention that this is the USA one and though Amazon are selling it it is a tad expensive and some of…
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Regular Random readers will know that I love the Clara Vine books of Jane Thynne. I have read them all and then last year sat down and had a re-read right from the first one and enjoyed them all over again. Here is a link to an earlier post. I am delighted that there is…
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OK January has gone. Allelluia say I. As you have seen from my posts I fell into a reading stupor and could not summon up the energy to read anything new at all and did lots of re-reads. And, in fact, I enjoyed it so much that I think I am going to do a…
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Well, as per, I am behind. I have been having my annual Great Purge of wardrobe, drawers etc, bin bags full off to the charity shops, files thinned out and destroyed and am feeling ready to get on with things now. And I wish to write today about two books which I read just before…
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Finally able to spend some time on writing a post. I have had a difficult time recently and then Christmas took over and I am currently at home trying to regain some peace of mind and have a rest. I am sorry that Random has had to take a back seat but my brain was…
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I read and loved this book, the latest in the series set in pre-war Berlin and Paris and featuring Clara Vine, and reviewed it for Shiny New Books, the latest edition of which is out now. Here is part of my review: "The all pervading sense of tension and fear in Berlin at this time…