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Over and Under the Snow
With Half Term on our doorsteps here in the UK, many of you will be off to snowy climes with the family. Here is the perfect reading material for you and the little ones, reblogged from Carter’s...
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Clarence Goes Out West and Meets a Purple Horse by Jean Ekman Adams
This beautiful picture book is perfect to read to young children before or during a ranch holiday. Clarence the pig is a little nervous at first, everything is new and Smoky, the purple horse is so...
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Flowers for Mrs Harris by Paul Gallico
This charming book was written in 1958 by Paul Gallico, and American writer better known for The Snow Goose and The Poseidon Adventure. It spurned a further 3 books about the ebullient English...
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An African Love Story by Daphne Sheldrick
If you are interested in conservation or animals, if you love Africa, or if you just enjoy a good love story, then read this book. “Africa has never been more vividly described. I read it straight...
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Dog Day by Alicia Giménez-Bartlett
Alicia Giménez-Bartlett may be little known outside Spain, but in her home country and in Latin America, she is one of their best-known and most-loved crime writers. She was born in 1951 in Almansa,...
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Londoners by Craig Taylor
Here London is a patchwork quilt laid out before in this tremendous book. The 80 voices of this book are the different colours, patterns and textures of the quilt. Sympathise with the terrified...
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Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo
There’s no point beating about the bush, I might as well say it now, I loved this book. The author, Jean-Claude Izzo, was born in Marseille of immigrant parents (Spanish and Italian heritage). Set in...
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Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
“The dying actress … wavered a moment in the boat’s stern, then extended a slender hand to grip the mahogany railing … All around her, shards of sunlight broke on the flickering waves.” So starts the...
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Mrs Harris Goes to Moscow by Paul Gallico
Written in 1974, this fun and charming book captures perfectly the tourist’s experience of Moscow of the 1970s. The ebullient Mrs Harris journeys to Moscow on an errand of love, and battles Russian...
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Botswana Time by Will Randall
“I speak of Africa and golden joys – Henry IV, Part 2, Act 5, Scene 3.” So quotes one of the characters early on in this book. A perfect quote for this joyous book. I didn’t get much time to read on...
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Madrid with your Dog
“You can sit here for breakfast or have a snack at any time…there are great examples of street art on the walls… and dogs are welcome at Gorila Cafe Bar, where they are greeted with water when it’s...
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Top 10 Books on my Istanbul Travel Reading List
I love to read a selection of books based on the country I’m travelling to to help with my planning and to get me in the mood. Just at the moment, I’m travelling a lot on business and I don’t have time...
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Marseille is in my Heart
“Marseille is, and always has been, the port of exiles, of Mediterranean exiles, of exiles from our former colonial routes, too. Here, whoever disembarks in the port is inevitably at home.” -an...
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Vintage Safari
“There we were, the three of us, wanting to congratulate, wanting to be good sports about this rhino whose smaller horn was longer than our big one, this huge, tear-eyed marvel of a rhino, this dead,...
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Salut! from Barcelona
The Catalans have been producing wine for over 2,00 years, much to the delight of the Romans and everyone who has come along since. I enjoyed this refreshing (and reflecting) glass of white, along...
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High on my favourites list
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee This book tells a gripping story of several generations of a Korean family, starting in 1883. It is a great read and covers many aspects of Korean and Japanese history and...
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Cheers, Scottish style
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves Accompanied by a Scottish gin (coffee still on the brew)I had intended this to be a gin from Shetland, but that bottle had been consumed.So, instead, we have a wee bottle...
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Londoners by Craig Taylor
Here London is a patchwork quilt laid out before in this tremendous book. The 80 voices of this book are the different colours, patterns and textures of the quilt. Sympathise with the terrified...
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Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo
There’s no point beating about the bush, I might as well say it now, I loved this book. The author, Jean-Claude Izzo, was born in Marseille of immigrant parents (Spanish and Italian heritage). Set in...
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Tales of married women
It’s time for this month’s chain of reading, set off by Kate’s Six Degrees of Separation, in which we are invited to build a chain of 6 books where each one bears some form of connection to the one...
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