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John’s 2025 Year in Books
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John Broughton
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Jane Bourgo has penned a clever and compelling novel in Beyond Impact. At its centre is Willow, a newly graduated young orphan whose kidnapping sets off a chain of unexpected events. Her captors, however, have no idea just how resourceful and spirite ...more |
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| My father was a stretcher bearer (RAMC) in World War II in North Africa and Italy, so I chose to read Malcolm Archibald’s The Regiment that Lost its Soul. What a good choice! If ever a novel set in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts could provide an ins ...more | |
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| Author Pete Adams has a unique voice: his comedic brilliance comes from a kind of stream of consciousness, but not from his characters, from the writer himself. In a single sentence, he is capable of challenging the reader to think in several differe ...more | |
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| The Doomsong Sword, by JG Harlond, written in the style of a Nordic saga, is a fine tale of an unlikely dragonslayer. The main character, Davor, is workshy and hardly the stuff of heroes, yet, it is he who slays a three-headed troll and much later a ...more | |
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| Do you like Nordic legends and the Viking period? Well, J.G. Harlond has created a story about a tale-teller who goes on a voyage of discovery and self-discovery. Finn, the main character, finds himself in the midst of a saga. His northern home is me ...more | |
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| Having read several of Angela Petch’s historical novels set in the Italian fascist context, I was looking forward to reading The Lost Garden. As usual, the novel was superbly plotted and the characterisation of the highest standard. The billing as ‘a ...more | |
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Isabella's Curse: A page-turning dual storyline with a supernatural twist
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| I confess that I knew Rosemary Noble at primary school, how was I to suspect then that she would turn into a present-day Brontë? Knowing that I was going to write a review of Isabella’s Curse, I spent at least 100 pages comparing the vile Francis Cro ...more | |
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| I have read several of John Bentley’s medieval French historical novels with pleasure. So, it was with curiosity that I approached the Morgens’ Lair. This novel marks a new departure for the author, who includes the time-slip element so that the read ...more | |
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| I once fell foul of a Mrs Arbuthnot and it rocked my marriage for a whole day because the jaundiced eye of a village busybody can do considerable damage, but just like Patricia Feinberg Stoner’s protagonist, this personage was capable of admitting a ...more | |
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| Although I'm not typically a fan of fantasy worlds outside of Tolkien's work, Mr. St John's character-focused novel quickly changed my perspective. He has crafted an exceptional tale of malevolence with his villainous sorceress, Queen Zildegunda, who ...more | |
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