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M.K.’s 2025 Year in Books
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Once Upon a Somewhere
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2014
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2 editions
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Woeful and Roses
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2013
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2 editions
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Operation Mincemeat: An Ingenious WW2 Deception
Having just read Ben Macintyre’s wonderful account and analysis of Operation Mincemeat, it brought to mind the film review I’d written some years ago for The Daily Opinion of The Man Who Never Was, the movie version of this incredible WW2 story. Such is my enthusiasm for both book and film, I thought I’d post links to them here.
Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the C
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| Another epic from Wilbur Smith detailing the trials and tribulations of two generations of the heroic Courteney family. The scope of these multi-generational Courteney novels is enormous and the action barely lets up at all in this one's 700+ pages. ...more | |
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| This was an enjoyable albeit fairly formulaic archaeological mystery thriller. The two main characters felt a little like Lara Croft and Indiana Jones. The action was well-paced though and the author had clearly researched his subject but overall, I' ...more | |
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| I enjoyed this second Hawkwood novel as much as I did the first (Ratcatcher). The narrative is well paced, the main characters are nicely defined without too much detail and back-story to trudge through and the descriptions of Regency London are very ...more | |
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| I added this novel to my reading list primarily because its plot unfolds along the Coast to Coast path in northern England and was hoping that it would be a sort of travelogue of this popular walking route. However, I was more than happy to discover ...more | |
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| I found this one to be a bit of a slow burner but nevertheless always interesting both in its historical detail and the unfolding plot line. The characters were all well defined and the plot itself kept me turning the pages until the last quarter whe ...more | |
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| This is my second reading of Monsoon, having initially been thrilled by it 20 years ago after buying it for 50p at a local Woolworths that was closing down. It was the novel that opened Wilbur Smith's world to me and two decades later, I'm still enjo ...more | |
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| I enjoyed this political drama set among the White House corridors of power and told through the eyes of those who walk them. The plot is intriguing and often shocking however, with the high number of characters that arrive, I sometimes felt it a lit ...more | |
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| I have numerous examples of classic American literature on my bookshelves and I'd been wanting to read this novel for some time but now that I've finally got around to it, I have to admit to being somewhat disappointed. I'm not entirely sure what I w ...more | |
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| Another Wilbur Smith tale of sibling rivalry ending in revenge and murder, this time set amid the world of diamond mining. Whilst this novel might not have the epic scale of some of his other series, it does have a fast-paced narrative and well-defin ...more | |
