New Book - Hidden by Linda Gillard (Pages 1 - 84)

 

First Published: February 6, 2020

This book is about a stately home called Myddleton Mote, and it is told from two points in time: present time and 1917/8.

Memorias de un cortesano de 1815 - Characters

 

SPOILERS!!!

These are the characters in the novel:

• Juan Bragas de Pipaon is the narrator and main character. He describes how he has managed to get a good position thanks to his contacts, and in the novel he uses his trickery to get hold of some land that belonged to the Misses de Porrúa. In the previous book he was Salvador's friend and used to work for the Requejos. 
• Buenaventura is Bragas's protector.
• María Castro de Oro, Countess of Rumblar is a character that appeared in the first series and she wanted her son to marry Ines. She is very strict to her daughters, and hardly lets them go out. Her plan is for her daughter Asunción to be a nun and for her daughter Presentación to be a spinster. In a previous book, she disowned Asunción when she tried to escaped with an Englishman.
• Presentación is Doña María's other daughter. Presentación is in love with Gasparito Grijalva and asks Bragas for help as her beloved is in prison. When Bragas proves to be a traitor as he takes the lands of the MIsses Porrua, Presentación takes her revenge and humiliated him before the king.
• Diego Hipólito Féliz de Cantalicio Afán de Ribera, Count of Rumblar, is Presentación's brother. He was a key character in the first series and he wanted to marry Ines. 
• Doña Salomé de Porrúa is one of Presentación's friends.
• Doña Paz de Porrúa is also a friend of Presentación's,, and she asks Bragas for help as she wants a moratorium to pay some debts. Yet, the man uses the information to become the owner of the woman's lands.
• Gasparito Grijalva is Presentación's beloved. He is incarcirated because he said that the king had a large nose.
• Don Alfonso de Grijalva is Gasparito's father and he is the person the Misses Porrúa owe the money to. As Alfonso is upset about his son's incarceration, Bragas uses the opportunity to buy the debt that the Porruas had with the man.
• Duke of Alagon (Paquito Córdoba) is a friend of Juan's and is very close to the king.
• 
  

Memorias de un cortesano de 1815 - Facts

 

The book takes place in 1815 when Fernando VII returns to Spain. After experiencing serious setbacks on many fronts, Napoleon agreed on 11 December 1813 to acknowledge Ferdinand VII as king of Spain, and signed the Treaty of Valençay so that the king could return to Spain. The Spanish people, blaming the policies of the Francophiles for causing the Napoleonic occupation and the Peninsular War by allying Spain too closely to France, at first welcomed Fernando. Ferdinand soon found that in the intervening years a new world had been born of foreign invasion and domestic revolution. In his name, Spain fought for its independence and in his name as well juntas had governed Spanish America. Spain was no longer the absolute monarchy it had been when he had relinquished six years earlier. Instead, he was now asked to rule under the liberal Constitution of 1812. Before being allowed onto Spanish soil, Ferdinand had to guarantee the liberals that he would govern on the basis of the constitution, but he only gave lukewarm indications that he would do so. Ferdinand's restored autocracy was guided by a small camarilla of his favourites, although his government seemed unstable. Whimsical and ferocious by turns, he changed his ministers every few months. 

Memorias de un cortesano de 1815 - 2 - The End (Pages 97 - end)

 

RATING: GOOD

SPOILERS!!!

New Book - Memorias de un cortesano de 1815 - Segunda Parte de Episodios Nacionales 2 - by Benito Pérez Galdós (Pages 1 - 29)

 

First Published: January 1, 1875

The main character in this novel is Juan Bragas. 

The Hallmarked Man - Characters

 

SPOILERS!!!

The Hallmarked Man - Facts

 

The book starts in Temple Ewell, Kent, where Cormoran meets Decima. Temple Ewell  is a village in the county of Kent. The village is part of the Dover district of Kent, and forms part of the Dover urban area.

The Hallmarked Man 6 - The End (Pages 736 - end)

 

RATING: EXCELLENT

SPOILERS!!!

The Hallmarked Man 5 (Pages 505 - 736)

 

SPOILERS!!!

The Hallmarked Man 4 (Pages 232-505)

 

SPOILERS!!!

The Hallmarked Man 3 (Pages 127 - 232)

 

SPOILERS!!!

The Hallmarked Man 2 (Pages 66 - 127)

 

SPOILERS!!!

New Book - The Hallmarked Man - Cormoran Strike 8 - by Robert Galbraith (Pages 1 - 66)

 

First Published: September 2, 2025

Cormoran drives to Kent to inerview a woman who wants to hire the agency.

 He is not having his best time as just recently his uncle Ted died of a