SueK
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I finished The Thirteenth Apostle by Michel Benoit last night (OK ish - better than Da Vinci Code but the translation held back the plot). I have now started The Sleepless Moon by H E Bates.
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I received The People's Act of Love by James Meek in the post today. Isn't it a tad embarrassing when you email Amazon about the very long delay in delivery - err and then it turns up in the post today
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^ I should have quoted you, as I was commenting on your post there!
There is a new Penguin Modern Classics version in print (I say new, I think it's been around for a year or more now!). That's the one I'm having trouble finding a decent copy of.
It's available on Amazon for £6.55 (Penguin Edition).
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Thanks so much for all your replies. There are some great books for me to look out for - some authors I haven't come across so look forward to learning more about them.
The first thing I thought when I saw the title of this thread was London Belongs to Me (I've been trying to get a copy of that for a while but every time I see it there is something wrong with it - creased cover, rumpled pages etc - and at £9.99 I want an A1 perfect copy!).
Raven, I mentioned this in my post as being typical of the book I'm looking for. I have a copy of it. Believe me - it was so difficult to find a good copy and mine is OK-ish, quite readable but the dust jacket is faded. However, the story itself is just great.
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Thanks Kylie. I actually have this on TBR pile (to be started in the New Year
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How wonderful to see Stuart Baggs The Brand squirm last night. I was jumping and cheering when he got his marching orders. what a little sh*t
and how nice to see Lord Sugar actually admit he was taken in my his blagging. How annoyed was he getting 
I thought Lord Sugar was very gracious to Jo. She grew on me during the series and as was commented, she had taken on board the negative comments about her from early on in the series and she grew into a women with lots of common sense. I hope she makes it with her cleaning business.
Now bring on the Final. I didn't realise it is on Sunday evening - will have to sort my evening out to view it.
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One of my favourite ever books is Angel Pavement by J P Priestley. It deals with the lives of a group of office workers in a small office in London around the 1930s. It is beautifully written and although it doesn't set the world alight plot-wise the descriptions of the characters and their lives are just magic. I found similar stories in Norman Collin's books, London Belongs to Me and Bond Street Story.
Now I'm after more of a similar genre. It doesn't have to be thick with plot, I just love reading the minutiae of people's lives and their stories during the period in question - but well written. I'm looking at novels, not necessarily war time stories, just something to really get into and savour.
Tall order, I know, but I'm sure you wonderful bibliophiles will have something up your sleeves
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Now this sounds right up my street
Orf to Amazon to check it out........ -
I can't get out but haven't done much reading
I've been stuck on my laptop in case someone from my office wants something doing. I am going to start reading The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald this evening though.
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I would love to own First Editions. I don't own any and I don't think I could afford to but it would be a dream to own one.
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I see we lost out on the 2018 World Cup bid then. Eliminated after the first round by all accounts. It's gone to Russia. I won't mention oligarchs, billionare footie club owners or anything.
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Can the book be in an historical context. The ones that come to mind are the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael. These are essentially whodunnits but usually in the background is an innocent love story of young people roughly the same age and some have been friends since childhood.
Just a thought .....
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and of course there is nothing like picking up some short ghost stories, especially around Christmas.
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There are times when short stories are great to delve into - if you are between novels. I often pick up some. My favourites are those by Guy de Maupassant and I have a good collection of Daphne du Maurier's short stories too. The Birds being one of my favourites
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Watching paint dry last night was infinitely better to watching the dire England football team. What a dreadful performance. Sack Capello I say.
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I haven't felt like reading since our break-in last Monday.
However, I managed to finish A Vengeful Longing by R N Norris and have now started the next in the series, A Razor Wrapped in Silk and I must say it is taking my mind off burglars. Great writing - this is the series that features Porfiry Petrovich who was the investigating magistrate in Doestoevsky's books (Columbo was based on him) and Mr Norris has taken him on in his series - with applomb, in my opinion. -
I thought it was a great ending too. I'm not sorry Mary didn't say yes, she is such a cow!!! After what she did to poor Edith too.
Reckon there will be a great second series, they will probably all go to war and die in the trenches!!
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No don't sulk Booknutt
I have to admit I fell out of love a bit with Barbara Erskine as they were getting a bit samey. But I do like the sound of this book and may give it a go (once Mount TBR has been conquered
). I'm pleased she has changed her format as I think she is a good writer but was getting a tad predictable.Thanks for the heads up though.
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Such a difficult call! It would probably be a Sherlock Holmes book and if I have to chose, then I would go for Study in Scarlet - such a well rounded novel.
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It was such an awfully long time ago, I really can't remember.
It was probably an Agatha Christie book and more than likely a Poirot as I didn't read Miss Marple until I was in my teens. I haven't read an Agatha Christie for years now but I picked up one in a charity shop recently (can't remember which) and I might read it around Christmas. -
Has anyone been following this series? I missed parts II and III so don't think I could re-join it now. Is it worth getting the DVD?
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Absolutely love this series and boo-hoo the last episode is this Sunday
. I think that it is geared up very nicely for another series as presumably the last one will end as WWI starts so there must be plenty of material for a sequel. Hope so. Without sounding patronising, I think ITV have done themselves proud with this production. But then the Sherlock Holmes series was ITV's and that was excellent too (I mean the Jeremy Brett ones). I never thought they would match Pride and Prejudice for production values but I've been proved wrong. -
Annoyed as I ordered The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald from Amazon last week. It was despatched on 27 October and delivery estimate was Monday. So far, no book. I have to wait until 15th November for it to arrive and then I can claim refund or replacement by then. I want my book ..... 
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I've discovered a new author named R N Norris who writes detective crime fiction centred around St Petersburg in the late 1800s. Nothing new about that you may say, but he has taken Dostoevsky's investigator, Porfiry Petrovich, and extended his character to this new series of books. So far I have found it works really well. I'm reading the second in the series, A Vengeful Longing, at the moment.
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To be fair Kylie, we've been on the other end of the press bashing for years. We've had to endure a lot of stuff coming out of the Aussie press for quite a few years (since 1986 in fact). Ricky Ponting had to really grit his teeth to wish us well on TV the other day.
I think the shoe is on the other foot for the time being and you can't deny us our happiness in this series. I'm sure it won't last for very long. 
