Sea of Shadows

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You Can Go Home Again

Mar 7, 2023

I'm having this dream. I'm in a field, gazing up at the ruins of an old castle. My father is there. We head for the tower through the wind and tall grass, but all of a sudden we're surrounded by the castle guards. They're on all fours, staring at us,

The American Scholar

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Commonplace Book

Jun 4, 2018

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. —Fred Allen I have always wondered, in reading travels, at the childish joy travellers felt at meeting people they knew, and their sense of loneliness when they did not, in

Country Life

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The Trouble With Seers

Oct 26, 2022

I SAT peering through the fugged-up windscreen of the Land Rover. It was one of those days when it rained hard enough to need the wipers, but not enough to prevent their agonised squeaking. Out in the gathering dusk, a west-coast sheepdog trials was

Country Life

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Letters To The Editor

Jan 4, 2023

ON one of the busiest Christmas shopping days in December, we suddenly saw a fox coming through the front door of our shop in Walton Street in Knightsbridge. It trotted through the shoppers to the far end, where it stopped among the fabric-pattern bo

Woman's Weekly

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Book Club

Mar 25, 2020

Not content with filling in crosswords and gardening, when Nicola’s husband, Dom, decides to retire, the couple make a decision to spend their children’s inheritance on something they’re going to really enjoy! A story that shows maybe life does start

You South Africa

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Spellbinding Reads

Nov 13, 2020

Mickey Starr imports and sells expensive cars. But these vehicles, some of them copies of rare cars, are used to bring large quantities of drugs to the UK from Europe. Then one night on the ferry things go wrong. Clive Johnson, a customs official, is

You South Africa

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Intense Suspense

Apr 14, 2023

By GEORGINA MOORE HQ Margo was 16 when she married Richard, an alcoholic poet, who regarded her as his muse. They loved each other deeply and so she was completely devastated when he abruptly abandoned her and their three daughters. Growing up in Sa

K-Zone

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Read! Read!

May 15, 2022

Swift and Hawk, teen experts in AI and robotics, are recruited to crack a code. Plunged into a dangerous mission, the pair must go from the hidden tunnels under the British Museum, to the docklands of Amsterdam. Their search for the mysterious ship N

The Oldie

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Marmalade Addicts – The Queen, Paddington And Me

Mar 8, 2023

‘If, at some future period of the world's history, men should acquire the art of flying, there can be no doubt that migration would become the custom, and whole nations would change their localities,' wrote Richard Jefferies in 1883. Seville is in my

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Out Now! Home Entertainment

Nov 7, 2019

The live-action remake of one of Disney's most beautiful stories is now available to take home. Simba, the future king, has been born but not everyone celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Simba's uncle - and former heir to the throne - has plans o

The Rake

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New World Marauder

Dec 12, 2017

Gangsters aside, pirates are perhaps the most romanticised outlaws of them all. And yet the annals of fiction are packed with larcenous sea dogs whose rakish flair is not so much heavily compromised as non-existent. Robert Louis Stevenson’s anti-hero

The Rake

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New World Marauder

Oct 12, 2018

by nick scott Gangsters aside, pirates are perhaps the most romanticised outlaws of them all. And yet the annals of fiction are packed with larcenous sea dogs whose rakish flair is not so much heavily compromised as non-existent. Robert Louis Stevens

Woman's Weekly

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Book Club

Jul 13, 2022

by Allie Reynolds (£16.99, HB, Headline) In a bay cut off from the rest of the world in Sydney, tensions run high as mystery and murder follow the sun-kissed occupants who will do anything to keep their bay a secret. Heading there is Kenna, on a que

New Idea

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Top Of The Shelf

Aug 28, 2022

BY KAYTE NUNN An absorbing and chilling tale in which the past and present combine. When Frankie takes her teen daughter to visit her mum on Orcades Island, the death of an elderly nun and a disturbing discovery envelopes them. OUT WED. BY

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15 Minutes of Fame

Mar 13, 2018

BY PETER NIELSEN Andy Warhol may have been a little wide of the mark when he famously said, “in the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes,” but given the merciless advance of social media his words are starting to ring true. How else do