Lesley Truffle
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Kingston - London , The United Kingdom
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August 2014
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| Gill Johnson’s biography is set in Venice in 1957. At the age of twenty-five she was mortified by her boyfriend’s decision to travel on his own to Europe to further his career. Not wanting to be left behind in England she applied for a post as a nann ...more | |
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| Craig Brown’s book examines Princess Margaret, the Countess of Snowdon, through the eyes of her groupies, lovers, detractors, sycophants and servants. HRH comes off as a rather unpleasant member of the royal family. Namely because in her early twenti ...more | |
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Gladys Deacon, the sphinx in Hugo Vickers biography, made the fatal mistake at the age of 14 of becoming obsessed with the quest of marrying the 9th Duke of Marlborough. It didn’t bother her that the Duke had recently married American heiress Consuel ...more |
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| Michelle Obama's 'The Light We Carry' (2022) biography is an easy, engaging read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Michelle has written earlier biographies concerning her early years and her time in the White House with her husband the US President Barack ...more | |
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| Freddie McEvoy was an Olympic bobsledding champion and despite being Australian, he represented Britain in the 1936 Winter Olympics in Germany. He later dedicated himself to racing cars, marrying heiresses, smuggling and doing dodgy business deals. H ...more | |
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Set in 1961, 'Lessons in Chemistry' is primarily concerned with Elizabeth Gott, her partner Calvin Evans and their rescue dog named Six-Thirty. Gott and Evens work at the Hastings Research Institute. Both of them are quite brilliant and their relatio ...more |
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| The novel, ‘The Man Who Couldn’t Miss’ features fiction writer/amateur sleuth Stewart Hoag. It opens in the Summer of 1993 with ‘Hoagy’ penning a new book, while living on his ex-wife’s Connecticut farm. She’s in residence but they live separate live ...more | |
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| Set in 1705 in Amsterdam, the novel essentially concerns Thea Brandt and her family who have fallen on hard times. Thea is a motherless, romantic eighteen year old who aspires to the better things in life and against all evidence to the contrary beli ...more | |
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| Set in 1705 in Amsterdam, the novel essentially concerns Thea Brandt and her family who have fallen on hard times. Thea is a motherless, romantic eighteen year old who aspires to the better things in life and against all evidence to the contrary beli ...more | |
“Apparently something nasty happened to him in the woodshed when he was a child and subsequently he’s always been emotionally fragile.’ Cat stood up and slammed her fist on the table.”
― Hotel Du Barry
― Hotel Du Barry
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