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Love and sacrifice in the Blitz

Love and sacrifice in the Blitz

If I could Tell You by Elizabeth Wilhide This book is probably categorised as historical romance, which strictly speaking it is, as it opens in Suffolk in 1939 and is most definitely about love.  But ...
My year in books

My year in books

This has been a good year for new books by long established authors, in fact, the publishing phenomenon was the second book by Harper Lee, To Set a Watchman which was the sequel to her To Kill a Mocki ...
Books about the world today and yesterday

Books about the world today and yesterday

ROBERT TANITCH’S ROUND-UP OF BOOKS No 11 EVOLUTION THE WHOLE STORY (Thames & Hudson £19.95). “I would rather be an off-spring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth,” said one emin ...
How Dick Jones prisoner of war escaped

How Dick Jones prisoner of war escaped

This account of a prisoner of war, who found himself stranded in Soviet occupied territory at the end of the Second World War, has been sent to us by his son in law and is a fascinating insight into t ...