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Winged Victory by V.M. Yeates The Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Escape From The Rising Sun; The Incredible Voyage Of The Sede... by Ian Skidmore Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks Sovereign by C.J. Sansom Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
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Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary and the Crisis That Shook the World by Alex von Tunzelmann
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Let’s be frank – it wasn’t because we were able to perform miracles that we won, but because Arab armies are rotten. What will happen to us if an Arab Mustapha Kemal [Atatürk] makes an appearance one of these days?’27
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The Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownMockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Books I wish I had never read
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Dissolution by C.J. SansomDark Fire by C.J. SansomSovereign by C.J. SansomRevelation by C.J. SansomHeartstone by C.J. Sansom
Superbly Written Historical Fiction
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Biography, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Non-fiction, and Thriller


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