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Looking for post Christmas reading, I took up the suggestion of a friend and started to read the Amelia Peabody series - with some misgivings I have to say. But I thought a crime/mystery series based...
Now my favorite all time history is that of Sherlock Holmes and Joseph Bell and Conan Doyle and the Art of Detection.
So here's a competition: Below is a study in features & detection...
“You know...
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Having spoken to several people who have met him, he sounds 'interesting.
Can't wait to meet him & compare notes and knife collections.
Oh! and his 5 months in an Egyptian nick..... 8)
Ps: A...
Stephen Hawking the author has sadly just died and this announcement reminded me of his book. I bought it together with many millions of others, I had hoped that it would explain something of...
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A sad loss of a brilliant thought process. I enjoyed his book immensely, so much so that I reread it. :a39:
The Annunaki are said to be the ancient Sumerian and Mesopotamian Gods. Their name means, They that Came from the Heavens. but what if I told you that these so-called Gods actually did come from the...
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Time to put an end to this nonesense, this thread is now locked
Now this sounds like a pretty revealing read, posted by my mate Gabriel on FB.
read on..... 8)
Author and columnist Michael Wolff was given extraordinary access to the Trump administration and now...
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I was thinking of using an external hard drive to transfer the recordings to my other lap top in my other room to save me disconnecting one lap top and transporting it through the house,...
Everyone please welcome my latest work, Possible Future. It is the direct prequel to my book 2016 Again? The element is the same, but a little bit different. This book is to further paint a picture...
If anyone had asked me a few months ago which were the worst books I had ever read, Heart of Darkness (Conrad) Metamorphosis (Kafka) would have been high on the list. Couldn't get to grips with...
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Poetry Carrie thanks.
Dusak – you win a prize for identifying the only possible benefit of Alzheimers.
Rereading for me tells me how I’ve changed – or at least how my responses/tastes have...
On my recent visit to Luxor I purchased this book...worth every piastre of 400EGP.
For anyone who has been to Egypt or has dreamed of going there, the book is an excellent read. From the mid-19th...
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We always look out for the Sudan on our morning walks. Also, when crossing the Nile with our regular boatman, Azab, he makes a point of looking for her so we can motor past at close distance because...
Robert Caro the US author and journalist has written 4 volumes of his LBJ biography and is, unless he dies, about to finish his 5th. He has been at it for 42 years writing...
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Its impossible for me to know his actual UK sales but a 10 second search indicates few second hand Caro LBJ books available on the Internet from UK dealers – which suggests that few originally sold...
I have no new books to read so turned to one I have tried to read many times before and never got on with. Well desperation drove me to continue this time and I really enjoyed it when I got into it....
One of the marks of a good novel for me is when I get to the end of it and I realise that I have learnt something along the way. This has been the case with The Return by Victoria Hislop.
When I...
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The Thread may or may not be in my pile of yet to be read books. Perhaps I need to check and if it's not in the pile I can keep my eye out for it at book sales.
Military history is full of myths – ‘we were heroes’, ‘we did right’, ‘our enemies were no good’ – and there are lots of myths about the Second World War, which make us, feel ‘better’ about the past....
The literary magazine most famous for interviews of great writers is The Paris Review and in 1992 they published one on Mahfouz. Its far from their best interview but contains the following...
First in 1872 with his family as a 14 year old child who was deeply interested in its nature and history. His family spent 2 months travelling on the...
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Ordering it physically on Amazon might be a cost problem - its very heavy - even in paperback.
In a thread about the subject of Cyprus came up and the Horus mentioned the seaside town of Famagusta. This was once a rising star in hot tourist spots on the island of Cyprus, but that swiftly...
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Re Victoria Hislop - an excellent writer, who does her research, married to Ian Hislop. The Island , mentioned by Hepzibah was her first novel, followed by The Return about the Spanish civil war,...
''OK boys, these are the rules. You need to take a p***, you let me know. You need to take a dump, you let me know. If its a dump, then you take this.'' Butcher holds up the short handled back packer...
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The only items downloaded in the last three years are the Apache office works, and my free version of anti virus. The problem is, is that you don't know whats coming through your updates. I have...
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