Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections
by Paulo Coelho Rating: **** A beautiful read. Some of the little tales are a touch repetitive and obvious but some are incredibly...
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Rose Auburn
- Dec 10, 2019
- 1 min
Silvertown: An East End Family Memoir
by Melanie McGrath Rating: *** A well-written and thought provoking book. I think the Author is selling it short with the description,...
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Rose Auburn
- Nov 18, 2019
- 1 min
Germinal
by Émile Zola Rating: ***** An absolute masterpiece. Buy from: Amazon UK | Amazon US
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Rose Auburn
- Nov 13, 2019
- 1 min
Breakfast at Sotheby's: An A-Z of the Art World
by Philip Hook Rating: **** I enjoyed this, Hook writes in a very engaging, easy style and you feel as if you having a conversation over...
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Rose Auburn
- Oct 31, 2019
- 1 min
Saint Peter's Fair (Chronicles Of Brother Cadfael Book 4)
by Ellis Peters Rating: **** Really enjoyed this, not too taxing, a fairly simple plot and even though the protagonist is fairly obvious,...
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Rose Auburn
- Oct 11, 2019
- 1 min
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton, Maureen Howard (Introduction) Rating: **** ** spoiler alert ** I believe that I had picked this book up before but had...
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Rose Auburn
- Oct 1, 2019
- 1 min
The Wire in the Blood
by Val McDermid Rating: *** Bit of a love/hate relationship with this book. I could rate some parts 2* and others 5*. I struggled to get...
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Rose Auburn
- Sep 16, 2019
- 1 min
The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees: The Ash in Human Culture and History
by Robert Penn Rating: *** I enjoyed parts of this book immensely, it was reassuring to realise that woodworking craftsman are still...
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Rose Auburn
- Sep 12, 2019
- 1 min
At Last
by Edward St. Aubyn Rating: *** I was a bit disappointed in this, the last of the Melrose novels. I felt it was a bit formulaic and lazy...
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Rose Auburn
- Sep 5, 2019
- 1 min
Mother's Milk
by Edward St. Aubyn Rating: **** After reading the first few chapters, I was arguing with myself whether to continue. I had already...
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Rose Auburn
- Aug 26, 2019
- 1 min
Extreme Risk
by Chris Hunter Rating: **** I would really like to give this 4.5 stars. Amazing man whose grounded sense of duty and right from wrong...
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Rose Auburn
- Aug 16, 2019
- 1 min
Lud-in-the-Mist
by Hope Mirrlees, Neil Gaiman Rating: ** I was a bit disappointed in this. The beginning hooked me and I was quite enchanted; it reminded...
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Rose Auburn
- Aug 13, 2019
- 1 min
Loving Without Tears
by Molly Keane Rating: *** I really would like to make this 3.5 stars or 3.75!! The story starts very promisingly, I could not put the...
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Rose Auburn
- Jul 23, 2019
- 1 min
Orphan X (An Orphan X Thriller)
by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz Rating: **** This is not my usual sort of book, it was bought for my husband but I fancied a change so thought I...
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Rose Auburn
- Jul 21, 2019
- 1 min
Ruth Rendell Mysteries: An Inspector Wexford Omnibus
by Ruth Rendell Rating: ***** I absolutely love Wexford, although not all the Omnibuses I have read have been five stars, there have been...
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Rose Auburn
- Jul 12, 2019
- 1 min
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
by Marina Lewycka Rating: *** I read this book fairly swiftly and it was perfectly readable. Well-observed and mildly humorous in places...
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Rose Auburn
- Jun 25, 2019
- 1 min
Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion, and Great Houses
by Lucy Worsley Rating: *** I was really excited about reading this book, it's my favourite historical period, I have read a lot already...
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Rose Auburn
- Jun 18, 2019
- 1 min
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
by Vladimir Nabokov Rating: **** An interesting and clever read. Seems a fairly simple premise to begin with but there are times, when...
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Rose Auburn
- Jun 3, 2019
- 1 min
The Long Good-bye (Philip Marlowe Series Book 6)
by Raymond Chandler Rating: *** I really enjoyed the majority of this book. The writing is fresh, stylised, deceptively poetic and clever...
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Rose Auburn
- May 12, 2019
- 1 min
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
by Antonia Fraser Rating: *** On the whole, an absorbing, interesting read. The level of research and detail is second to none and after...
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