“The Female James Patterson” is a very strong statement to make about a relatively unknown author like Lee Weeks and I have to say that is what intrigued me to read this novel. After getting over my initial thoughts I settled down to read and realised that the accolade given to…
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Who Is Charles Cumming? Winner of the CIWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award, A Foreign Country is an intrinsically written spy novel that highlights the secret world. The author, Charles Cumming, was clearly inspired to write spy thrillers after he was approached by MI6 in 1995 and this is…
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Donna Leon was an author I had never heard of before doing a random search on a well-known website for new authors to explore. Now however, I wish I had found her much earlier. Named as one of The Times (London) Fifty Greatest Crime Writers, Donna Leon has lived in various…
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Set in the 1920’s, The Great Gatsby has no doubt been on University reading lists for many years and now, thanks to the recent Hollywood tribute to this work I am sure many others have turned to this American Classic. Through the eyes of Nick Carraway, a Yale Graduate…
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