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Alex Craigie

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Born
Sunderland, The United Kingdom
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January 2016


Alex Craigie is the pen name of Trish Power.

Trish was ten when her first play was performed at school. It was in rhyming couplets and written in pencil in a book with imperial weights and measures printed on the back. There were two princes in it - one was called Rupert and the other was changed to Sam because she couldn't find enough rhymes for Randolph.

When her children were young, she wrote short stories for magazines before returning to the teaching job that she loved.

Trish has had seven books published under the pen name of Alex Craigie. Three books cross genre boundaries and feature elements of romance, thriller and suspense against a backdrop of social issues. Someone Close to Home highlights the problems affecting care homes, Acts o
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Alex Craigie My paternal grandmother's grandmother had a sister. They both lived and died in Edinburgh. One of them lived a life of comparative luxury married to a…moreMy paternal grandmother's grandmother had a sister. They both lived and died in Edinburgh. One of them lived a life of comparative luxury married to a goldsmith, the other died in the poorhouse literally a few minutes down the road from her. It's not exactly a mystery, but I wish I'd asked my Granny about it when I had the chance. The one who married well would have been expected to obey her husband and may not have been allowed to visit the other in the poorhouse. I can't imagine what that would have been like. (less)
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Someone Close to Home

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The Bubble Reputation

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Means to Deceive

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The Rat In The Python: Book...

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Acts Of Convenience

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The Dead Earth Protocol by Graeme Butler
"The Dead Earth Protocol is a science fiction tale set mainly in a mining outpost on Mars.

The story begins with introductions to Darlene and Gordon. Darlene, a grandmother and underground vigilante. While Gordon is a teenager who is running late for h" Read more of this review »
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Fifteen First Times by D.G. Kaye
"What’s not to love about this collection of fifteen memories from author D.G. Kaye? First-time experiences are a natural part of life, our initiations into certain situations, more ticks on the list of things to-be-done as we work our way through. So" Read more of this review »
Salvation in Death by J.D. Robb
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The Wife of Kronstadt by Patricia  Furstenberg
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The shorter stories called The Kronstadt Chronicle fill in some of the detail of the back story to the novel Where Secrets Bloom. I really loved Where Secrets Bloom, the tale of a talented healer during the time of Vlad the Impaler, and have been wai ...more
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The Book That Should Have Been Lost by Patricia Furstenberg
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This is another of the books from the author’s Kronstadt Chronicle. These are novellas set during the life of Vlad the Impaler. The author has done painstaking research and Vlad comes across as a much more moral character than the one-dimensional ver ...more
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Medieval Christmas by Toni Mount
Medieval Christmas
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This book looks at the past to see how it has shaped the Christmas that we know now.
It goes back to pagan rituals that marked the hardship of winter and sought to entertain and boost the spirits of a time when days were short, farming was largely dor
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Pieces of Blue by Liz Flaherty
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Maggie North has been a ghostwriter for Trilby for years and when he dies, he leaves her a house on a lake. Maggie goes there just to have a look, intending to go back to her old life in the city, but there’s something about the place and the people ...more
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Slivers Of Life by Beem Weeks
Slivers Of Life
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Slivers of Life is a collection of short stories that tell of ordinary people and their dreams, lives, hopes and fears. It’s written in a convincing dialect that helped to bring the characters to life and I really enjoyed the book. There were one or ...more
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