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Annabel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Annabel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Annabel Frazer
Goodreads Author
Born
Cambridge, The United Kingdom
Genre
Influences
Mary Stewart
Member Since
March 2017
Better by the second - a celebration of books which against all the odds have just one sequel
This weekend, I'm publishing Death Comes In With The Tide. This is my sequel to Death Sees Most Of the Game and the first sequel I’ve ever written. It's so new that the GoodReads link doesn't work yet, so bear with this clunky link for now:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
To celebrate, I decided to blog about sequels. In the cinema world, the list of great sequels is well-esta Read more of this blog post »
Annabel’s Recent Updates
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This is such a wonderful book that I don't know where to start. It's an absolute fixture in my Top Ten. Luckily, it is so consistently admired that I don't need to explain what's so good about it. I am a big fan of Dickens and that's probably why I lo ...more |
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| Even by the standards of some of the more imaginative adventure yarns in the Biggles series, this one is far-fetched. Biggles and his crew (as usual, bored by peacetime) were hired by an eccentric scientist to explore strange phenomena around the wor ...more | |
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Annabel Frazer
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Pasan Rajadasa's review
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Biggles and the Cruise of the Condor (Biggles, #2):
"A typical W.E. Johns. If you give a real thought about a story of a Biggles book, it sometimes doesn't even make any sense. The real success of these books is that they do not let the reader figure out that. There will always be a interesting machine"
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"Here is Biggles in the wild unexplored Amazon, with lots of adventuring along the way, including the discovery of fabulous lost Inca treasure.
Though published in 1933, it took me a little time to work out the period of the story - it’s an early Biggl" Read more of this review » |
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| I used to be an avid reader of Biggles as a child. Although the stories have aged badly in some respects, they are still very entertaining stories. The historical insight into the nature of early combat flying in the books set in World War 1&2 is fas ...more | |
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| I was frustrated by this book, as I have been by a lot of Robert Harris's more recent novels. He selects a historical incident and then weaves a novel around it, focusing on research and accuracy rather than creativity and storytelling. And thereby l ...more | |
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Ewan's review
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Over the Rainbow: Tales from an Unexpected Year:
"Blur bassist Alex James has a lot of plates spinning. Not only did he reunite with one of the biggest bands in history for a whirlwind tour and a new album, but he organised his yearly Feastival, wrote a book and kept life as a dad-of-five on the go."
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| I liked this. I don’t even rate Blur that much – although I was a student in the Nineties and there for Britpop at its height, I was more into the disco revival then, and now that my teenage children are discovering Britpop for themselves, I prefer t ...more | |
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I'm a huge fan of all Bill Bryson's travel books, to the extent that I dare not read them on public transport because they make me laugh too much. This one combines his usual humour and observation with a wilderness adventure. For me, living in Engla ...more |
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| Another classic Patricia Wentworth reread for me. I love these cosy vintage detective stories and am generally very forgiving of their faults, but I'm giving this one just two stars partly for the disappointing romance element (always a very importan ...more | |
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