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Jim Webster
Goodreads Author
Born
Barrow in Furness, The United Kingdom
Website
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Genre
Influences
The author I owe most to is Jack Vance.
Member Since
May 2012
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Justice 4.1 (Tsarina Sector, #1)
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2014
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5 editions
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The Cartographer's Apprentice: Leave Them Wanting More
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2013
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4 editions
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Sometimes I sits and thinks
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Swords for a Dead Lady
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2011
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9 editions
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Flotsam or Jetsam
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2015
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2 editions
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And sometimes I just sits?
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A Much Arranged Marriage
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Tallis Steelyard and the sedan chair caper.
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The Flames of the City
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2012
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Swimming for Profit and Pleasure
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The Touchdown Collection
Another day, another SF novel. Rather than a ‘series’ I have in mind a ‘Touchdown Collection.’ Same worlds, same characters, same universe. But the idea is that each book is complete with its own ending and no cliff-hangers. The books will follow on from each other, but ideally not so you’ll have to read them …
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Bringing the joys of civilisation
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Sounds like a few fine quiet days would help. Looks like you're getting more stress than you need :-(
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Pam Baddeley's review
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The Last Devil To Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4):
"This is book 4 of the Thursday Murder Club series. In it, Kuldesh, who helped Stephen in the previous book to value rare books, is murdered. A drug dealer visited his antiques shop "suggesting" that Kuldesh mind a box for him, a box that contains £15"
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The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3):
"I was pleased to find that this third in the Thursday Murder Club series had returned to its roots in the cosy crime genre.
The team start to investigate the mysterious death of local TV reporter, Bethany Waites, who ten years previously was presumed" Read more of this review » |
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WIP - please need advice on fantasy genre
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I'm afraid that for me, that clash between historical setting and modern attitudes would jar and just drop me straight out of the book.
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I must admit I avoid reviewing authors or doing review swaps because Amazon have, at times, frowned upon the process. Also a lot of readers I've talked to don't like the process either because they feel that the reviews are pretty worthless.
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Good morning :-)
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The Slightly Odd World of Phil Whiteland
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Philip wrote: "Given that it is the weekend (allegedly) it must be time for another Gwladys and Aefelthrith adventure and, this week, Aefelthrith give
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“Become acquainted with your soul, care for it, for it will outlast all you have.”
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“A dog has lots of friends because it wags its tail and not its tongue.”
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Jim, is that another pumpkin behind your head or do you have one giant ear?Cheers
MTM
Aug 01, 2017 05:31AM · flag
Allegedly ;-)
Aug 02, 2017 05:28AM · flag