What other author are you reading at the moment?
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Conspiracy. The new Giordano Bruno mystery by S J Parris. Highly recommended for fans of medievel murder mysteries like Sansom's Shardlake books.
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Hi Dave, I ordered it from amazon.com for $ 18 which seems reasonable:Domino wrote:I too have always liked the film, "My Name is Julia Ross". It must surely be the only film in which Dame May Whitty played a villainous role. Nina Foch acquits herself very well also. I've not read the book, "The Lady In Red", but would buy it if I saw it. Dave
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It's also available in the British amazon where it's listed as a Mr. Crook mystery even though Wiki claims it's no Mr. Crook mystery:
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As is often the case with older books, eBay is more expensive than amazon:
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George Macready who plays Dame May Whitty's son in "Julia Ross" later on became very famous in the US playing mean Martin Peyton in the soap opera TV series "Peyton Place".Domino wrote:I too have always liked the film, "My Name is Julia Ross". It must surely be the only film in which Dame May Whitty played a villainous role. Nina Foch acquits herself very well also. I've not read the book, "The Lady In Red", but would buy it if I saw it. Dave
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Floragord, didn't Susan Hill also write the first of the Rebecca sequels based on DuMaurier?floragord wrote:Susan Hill's exquisitely written THE MAGIC APPLE TREE - A Country Year, a lovely read at any season
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Still have to read "Nemesis", but it's on my Agatha Christie book shelf.floragord wrote:Agatha Christie's NEMESIS - its years since I last read it and I can't remember whodunit, but its a great page turner
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Re: What other author are you reading at the moment?
It is, Julie.Julie2owlsdene wrote:A lovely picture, Nigel. Is that a young Simon?
I had to Google that - and I can see what you mean!Anita wrote:Great photo, Nigel! You look quite a bit like Roald Dahl from that angle!
You will know when we meet next.JP wrote:Great photo, Nigel. Which one is you?
Sorry for the late reply, but have some time on my hands at the moment!
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Enjoyed the previous three or four posts.I've just received the above.
I ordered it primarily just leave next to my bed as my wife often accuses me of being 'in love' with Mary Berry or 'my girlfriend' because I really like her cookery programme.
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She did indeed, Chrissie, I thought it an excellent effort, not the easiest task to take up the huge question mark ddm left at the end of Rebecca and come up with an adequate interpretation of what could have happened! Hope you hugely enjoy NEMESIS, it was a great read! I'm not short of holiday reading matter with Wilbur Smith's chunky EGYPT quartet, starting with the superb RIVER GOD.Chrissie777 wrote:Floragord, didn't Susan Hill also write the first of the Rebecca sequels based on DuMaurier?floragord wrote:Susan Hill's exquisitely written THE MAGIC APPLE TREE - A Country Year, a lovely read at any season
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A good choice.I absolutely loved his book The Seventh Scroll which reminded me in places of The River Of Adventure.
In fact since I haven't read it since it's initial release - I think I must pop it onto my kindle for a re-read!
In fact since I haven't read it since it's initial release - I think I must pop it onto my kindle for a re-read!
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Just finished Jenning's Dairy (Anthony Buckeridge) 1965 Collins hardback where we have fun writing in our diary in code, start a Form collection of ancient natural history uncovering a cart wheel and chain from "BC" and test the patience of the staff stuffing Jenning's trunk to the absolute limits of its capacity squashing all in while having funny adventures.
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"Be still, my Love" by June Truesdell which just arrived from amazon.co.uk last week (even though it was made into a film noir in the US with the title "The Accused" (Loretta Young, Wendell Corey), I couldn't find the book on amazon.com).
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I've just started Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins and Dominique LaPierre, about the end of the British Raj and the partition of India. It was one of the books on which the recent film Viceroy's House was based — I saw it recently at the cinema and thought it was a brilliant film (very wrenching at times, though — it had me in tears at several points). The book, too, is really well written and gripping, even only a short way into it.
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I've just started in on THE SEVENTH SCROLL Pete, it was my favourite of the series when I read it the first time round, as you say shades of RIVER OF ADVENTURE come to mind as the plot unfolds, wonder ifpete9012S wrote:A good choice.I absolutely loved his book The Seventh Scroll which reminded me in places of The River Of Adventure.
In fact since I haven't read it since it's initial release - I think I must pop it onto my kindle for a re-read!
Wilbur Smith is an EB fan and was inspired?
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I'm still stuck with The Time Traveller's Wife, it's actually a nice book but doesn't really engage you or induces you to continue reading, so I don't know what to do because I can't wait to get back to my dear 'classics'!!!
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I'm reading another book from my Gwendoline Courtney collection 'Torley Grange'. Gwendoline is a master of the family story and this is her first novel, not perhaps as good as some of her later books like Sally's Family or The Farm on the Downs but a pleasant read nonetheless.
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