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On Shelley, secrets and weaving fact with fiction in ‘A Treacherous Likeness’….

Posted on February 7, 2013 by

One of my favourite reads of 2012 was Tom All Alone’s by Lynn Shepherd. The grim realities of Victorian Britain were brought to life for a 21st century audience and the fictional worlds of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins (often … Continue reading →

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In which I read a terrific book but am none the wiser for it…

Posted on October 6, 2010 by

Have you ever reached the end of a novel, particularly one over 500 pages long and felt as if you had to flick through the whole story again to work out where you may have failed to pick up a … Continue reading →

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