Saturday, 13 December 2025

"A straightforward guide to writing romantic fiction" by Kate Walker (Straightforward publishing, 2002)

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Unlike other genres whose popularity fluctuates up and down, the popularity of romances stays consistently high (p.9) As the majo...
Friday, 12 December 2025

"Blood oath" by Linda Fairstein

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An audio book. The narrator, Alexandra Cooper, a lawyer, is back to work after a case where her boss was shot dead. Her colleague, Helen Wy...
Thursday, 11 December 2025

"Levitation for beginners" by Suzannah Dunn

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An audio book. 50+ years later, the first-person PoV Deborah thinks back to her junior village school with its class of 8 (2 boys). She re...
Wednesday, 10 December 2025

"The Fall" by Rachael Blok

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Prologue - someone's on a cathedral roof. If only they hadn't answered the phone. It all began 50 years before. Willow Eliot (she ...
Tuesday, 9 December 2025

"Caught" by Harlan Coben

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Prologue - Dan, separated from Genna for years (she has a 6 y.o. Carrie with her new husband. Dan babysits) was a foster child. He went to ...
Monday, 8 December 2025

"Potting shed murder" by Paula Sutton

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An audio book. Cozy. Prologue: James and Daphne are in a car in London, battling over parking spaces when they see a balaclava'd man wi...
Sunday, 7 December 2025

"Magma (No.84, 2022)"

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Theme: Physics. Some of the poets are way more qualified in science/medicine than I am, others (I suspect) know a lot less. I most like ...