Saturday, 28 September 2024

New Book - Fear the Darkness - Brigid Quinn 2 - by Becky Masterman (Pages 1 - 54)

First Published: 2014

This is the second book in the series. In the prologue the narrator, Brigid, who is a former FBI agent and currently a private investigator, is locked in some kind of shed and knows she is dying. Yet, she fears that her death would be taken as incidental, so she wants to leave some evidence that it is murder.

Jane Austen At Home 5 - The End (Pages 192 - end)


In Bath the Austens moved to Green Park Buildings. 

Sunday, 22 September 2024

Jane Austen At Home 4 (Pages 121 - 192)


 The first time that a book by Jane Austen is attempted for publication was when her father approached THomas Cadell with 'First Impressions', but it was refused. Thomas Cadell (1742–1802) was a successful 18th-century English bookseller who published works by some of the most famous writers of the 18th century.

Friday, 20 September 2024

Tuesday, 17 September 2024

Sunday, 15 September 2024

Monday, 9 September 2024

New Book - Closer To Home - DI Kate Fletcher 1 - by Heleyne Hammersley (Pages 1 - 44)


 First Published: 2017

The novel starts in 1975, and a girl, Tracy, tries to prove that she is brave to her classmates who mock her. Then she gets stuck in the quarry and it seems she can't leave.