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Category: Aliette de Bodard

These I have quite liked

Here are short reviews of books I’ve liked recently, for your consideration. Georgette Heyer, Royal Escape (1938) This is not a Regency romance, and it’s possibly the weakest of her historical reconstructions, but I liked it enough to keep reading, simply because I don’t know the history of Charles II's escape from the Battle of … Continue reading These I have quite liked →

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Kate 19thC, 20thC, 21stC, Aliette de Bodard, community life, dystopia, fantasy, Georgette Heyer, history, Malcolm Saville, Naomi Mitchison, nature, outdoor adventure, passion and secrets, Penelope Lively, Peter S Beagle, political / social commentary, Richard Jeffries, the life of the times, William Golding 4 Comments January 12, 2018January 12, 2018
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