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Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Friday, February 7, 2025

Review: Chinawoman's Chance by James Musgrave

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Synopsis: Clara Shortridge Foltz faces a patriarchal nemesis in 1884 San Francisco. When a white prostitute is murdered and flayed down to ...
Monday, January 2, 2023

Review: The Enigma of Room 622 by Joel Dicker

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Synopsis: "One night in December, a corpse is found in Room 622 of the Hotel Verbier, a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps. A police inves...
Sunday, October 3, 2021

Review: The Dangerous Kingdom of Love by Neil Blackmore

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Synopsis: The kingdom of love is a frightening place. A dangerous place. What kind of fool wants to live there? How have I, Francis Bacon, ...
Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Review: The Second Life of Inspector Canessa by Roberto Perrone

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Synopsis: Family secrets, terrorist plots and the return of a legendary cop: a ferociously paced noir thriller from one of Italy’s top crim...
Sunday, October 4, 2020

Review: Sons of Rome by Gordon Doherty & Simon Turney

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Synopsis:   Four Emperors. Two Friends. One Destiny. As twilight descends on the 3rd century AD, the Roman Empire is but a shadow of its for...
Saturday, October 26, 2019

Review: The Nuclear Spies by Vince Houghton

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Synopsis:    Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities followin...
Sunday, March 17, 2019

Review: AllmenSeries by Martin Suter

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Allmen, an elegant bon vivant and fine spirit, has come into financial difficulties over the years. Five magical Art Nouveau bowls put him ...
Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Review: The Falcon Confession by John V. Norris

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What he saw shocked him to the core. Harold Godwinson, the Earl of Wessex, the Subregulus of England, the commander of the royal army, and...
Saturday, November 3, 2018

Papal Protection and the Crusader: Flanders, Champagne, and the Kingdom of France. 1095-1222 by Danielle Park

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Synopsis: On taking the cross, crusaders received a diverse set of privileges designed to appeal to both spiritual and more temporal con...
Friday, September 28, 2018

Analyzing book reading behavior on Goodreads to predict Amazon Bestsellers

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From  TechXplore : Researchers at Northwestern University, Microsoft Research India, and the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur ha...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

Ranjeeta Dutta reviews Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji by Manu S. Pillai

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From  The Hindu : A history of the Deccan introduces us to a cosmopolitan world with fluid identities, cross-cultural interactions and p...

Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch

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Review by Dan Jones for The Sunday Times : Minutes before his head was struck off with an axe, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s disgraced f...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

MI5 and Me by Charlotte Bingham

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Review by  Lucy Hughes-Hallett in The Guardian : In " MI5 & Me " veteran fiction author, Bingham has written the prequel o...
Sunday, February 25, 2018

Showdown in the Levant by Nicholas Morton

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Wall Street Journal - Reviews: Oxford Professor and Author Christopher Tyerman reviews ‘ The Field of Blood ’ by Nicholas Morton N...