Madeleine
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For your babies - Simply Red
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Cowboys and Angels - George Michael
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Ticket to Ride- the Beatles
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Harvest Moon - Neil Young
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shine on you crazy diamond -Pink Floyd
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Light My fire - the Doors
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braces (that's the ones which kept your trousers up, not the ones on your teeth!)
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Red Red Wine - UB40
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That is such a classic, they showed that clip on the news when his death was announced,and the newsreader was in hysterics - a nice tribute.
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Total eclipse of the heart - Bonnie Tyler
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Robert Bathurst (from Cold Feet) is also highly thought of, and has just been nominated for a major award.
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A Shetland Winter Mystery by Marsali Taylor - this starts off in a fairly light mood, with sailor Cass Lynch on dry land for once, as she's on a break from sailing for Christmas,and is back on Shetland at the cottage she has moved into with her policeman boyfriend Gavin and two cats. In the run-up to Christmas, it seems that many residents have been visited at night by trowies, little folk who live in mounds in the hills, and come down to cause mischief. Tiny footprints lead up to doorways and windowsills, and then lead away from another window, or a catflap, but no harm is done. Cass suspects the local children,and for a while it all bowls along, until a teenager goes missing, and then another young man is found dead on a beach -are the two cases connected? Events then become more serious, although towards the end of the book so many people, especially the female characters, did so many silly things that I started to get a bit fed up with the tired cliche of a character heading into danger, when all they had to do was go to the police. Having said that, it was very readable and passed the time well enough. 6.5/10
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Welcome, I see you've already found your way round the forum!
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Your favourite book cover of 2023. - House of Fortune by Jessie Burton, though I haven't read it yet, but I loved The Miniaturist.
Your favourite publisher of 2023. N/A
Your favourite book shop/retailer of 2023 - Waterstone's, not many bookshops where I live apart from the High Street chains
Your audiobook recommendation of 2023 - don't do audiobooks
Your most read author of 2023 - probably Elly Griffiths
Your recommended re-read of 2023 - Loch of the Dead by Oscar de Muriel
Your book that wasn't worth bothering with in 2023 - Heidi Swain, The Book Lover's Retreat - typical chick lit....
The book you most wanted to read in 2023, but didn't get too award - too many to mention
Your biggest literary let-down of 2023 N/A
Your favourite illustrated book of 2023 N/A
Your children's book recommendation of 2023 N/A
Your recommended classic of 2023 N/A
Your favourite short story (or collection of short stories) of 2023 N/A
Your favourite literary character of 2023 - it has to be Adolphus McGray from the Frey and McGray series
Your poetry recommendation of 2023 don't do poetry,sorry
Your favourite genre of 2023 - Victorian gothic
The funniest book you read in 2023 -N/A
Your favourite biography/memoir of 2023 N/A
Your non-fiction recommendation of 2023 - N/A
Your fiction book of the year, 2023 - Loch of the Dead by Oscar de Muriel, 4th in the Frey and McGray series which was recommended on this forum, thank you for introducing me to this great series
Your author of the year, 2023 -0scar de Muriel, I hope he does another series now that he's finished with Frey and McGray.
Your overall book of the year, 2023 -Loch of the Dead etc, as above.
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Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
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More than this - Roxy Music
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Message in a Bottle - The Police
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Wrapped around your finger - The Police
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The telephone always rings - Fun Boy Three
Never Ending Song Titles - Part 8
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