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A vividly evocative tug at the heart-strings

RARELY do I find a book having such a deep and personal impact as this moving and tender story. Its effect lingered long after the

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Murder and mayhem in hilarious crime fiction debut

NAH, it can’t be that good. Surely not. Must be because it’s got a celebrity’s name taking top billing as the author across the cover.

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Pot holes and regrets; a road map to dubious freedom

Living, coping and observing in the age of Covid #10 REMEMBER those bruising, knuckle-skinning, foot-tripping days of yore; every man and woman (and all in

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Whingers galore and hardship hell, isolated in the Oxfordshire wilds

Living, coping and observing in the age of Covid #9 NO doubt the nation’s heart has gone out to another victim of the pandemic. Fortunately

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Marmite Markle strikes a blow for letter-writers

AS a person of interest, Meaghan Markle usually rates way down the list of those spotlighted celebrities who engage my attention. Almost off the scale;

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Criminals from all over lurk in lockdown bedside library

Living, coping and observing in the age of Covid #8 Feb 2021: THE Pisa-like bedside tower of books looked like toppling before I got

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Good news on books, jabs and theatre fights BBC gloom

Living, coping and observing in the age of Covid #7 Jan 2021: I HAVE been on a bit of a downer. Today, however, I am

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Dealing with the nitty gritty on hoes and dykes

PERHAPS this blog post should come with an advisory caution; like those that precede some of the raunchier dramas screened on post-watershed TV. A warning

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