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Alan’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Alan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Alan Williams’s Followers (19)
52,076 books
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10,855 books
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263 books
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27,378 books
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249 books
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Alan Williams
Goodreads Author
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in Nottingham, The United Kingdom
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November 2015
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/alanrw1964
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The Daylight Thief
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The Man Who Found Treasure
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
The nineteenth century world of The Daylight Thief
My novel The Daylight Thief inhabits two distinct worlds. It dons both the t-shirt and trainers of the present day and the corseted and behatted attire of the nineteenth century. As the story unfolds though, we learn that the distance between these two worlds is smaller than we think.
So just how different is that earlier world ... the world of Jack Follows?
Nottingham in 1848, when we first meet Ja Read more of this blog post »
So just how different is that earlier world ... the world of Jack Follows?
Nottingham in 1848, when we first meet Ja Read more of this blog post »
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| The Booker Prize winning ‘Possession’ is one great roller coaster ride of a book, but in ways that you just don’t expect. I came to it via a recommendation, but I was also wary of A.S. Byatt, having previously arrived at the conclusion that she was s ...more | |
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'A Month in the Country' is a very short book and Booker Prize shortlisted in its day. In its few pages, it draws the reader deep in to the intense, perfect and glorious 'Tennyson' summer of 1920. Birkin, an art restorer, looks back from his old age ...more |
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“A rat once ate my powder puff in the dressing room at the Nottingham Theatre Royal.” So, any novel which mentions Nottingham – even its rats - gets a free pass into my ‘good books’. Theatres loom large in the story. In fact, the story itself is as th ...more |
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
― The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else”
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