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Dark Academia set in St Andrews

  • Submitted: 15th March 2025

When We Were Killers - C F Barrington Went back to university today. Back to halls and read this book imagining it all. Well, THAT…

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Dutch classic set in Amsterdam – Gerard Reve

  • Submitted: 14th March 2025

The Evenings Gerard Reve A classic read of Dutch literature they told me. Everyone reads this in the days leading up to New Year in…

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Map Monday – The Eights

  • Submitted: 10th March 2025

Map Monday - The Eights The map in this book is more historical and philosophical than geographical in many ways. It's a story about a…

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Reality Shows in Books

  • Submitted: 7th March 2025

Reality Shows in Books There have been several books lately where a group take part in a reality show and get up to all kinds…

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Historical fiction – Rembrandt’s Promise set in Amsterdam

  • Submitted: 3rd March 2025

Rembrandt's Promise set in Amsterdam 1642. ­Geertje, an impoverished widow from Edam becomes nursemaid in the house of renowned painter Rembrandt. After Rembrandt's wife dies,…

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A Granite Silence

1934: A notorious true crime case

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