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Brideshead Revisited

  • Author: Evelyn Waugh
  • Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
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A nostalgic look at the past, with homoerotic undercurrents and asks questions about faith and faithfulness.

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Rabbit, Run

The life of an ex-sport superstar who’s fear of his now second rate life drives him to run, leaving his loved ones behind.

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A Mouth Full of Shell

  • Author: Connie Gotsch
  • Publisher: DLSIJ Press
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  • Reviewed by: Carolyn Howard-Johnson
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Watch out world! A new author of note is emerging. Connie Gotsch uses her experience in the world of broadcasting to color a story about a woman who must learn a new way to fight repression if she is to carve a new world for herself. Dr. Betsy Craig battles the inherent suppression of an [...]

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Harkening

  • Author: Carolyn Howard-Johnson
  • Publisher: PublishAmerica
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  • Reviewed by: Kristin Johnson
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s second book Harkening, “a collection of 19 gentle sequels” to her debut award-winning novel This Is The Place, won the Excellence in Writing Award from WordThunder.com, and one of the stories won the Red Sky Press Award. If the story was up against the other 18 in this collection, the judges must have felt [...]

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One for my Baby

  • Author: Tony Parsons
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
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One for my baby is written from the point of view of Alfie, an ex-pat out in Hong Kong before the hand-over back to China. Unfortunately Alfie’s wife, Rose, dies there in a diving accident. The rest of the book is set in England with Alfie plodding through his life, unable to move on from [...]

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Filth

Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is evil, scheming, haemorrhoid ridden and a most despicable example of the human race. He’s going for promotion and he’s fuelled by drugs and booze and his various plots against fellow colleagues all appear to be going to plan. Everything, at least on the surface, is going OK for Mr Robertson. [...]