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Sad to report that Sharon Kay Penman passed away last week. I think she has many fans on this forum.

Hi Nina, good luck with the new book!

Just about to start A Winter Beneath the Stars by Jo Thomas.

The Christmas Collection by Victoria Connelly - this is a set of 3 novellas, or longish short stories (about 60 pages each) set, naturally, at Christmas time and all are set in beautiful parts of the UK. In the first, Christmas at the Cove, Millie wants to spend the season on her own, and is thrill...

Hope everyone had as good a Christmas as possible under the circumstances!

I really enjoyed the first Frances Gorges book and have the 2nd one on mount tbr. thought it was well-written and interesting to read about the Gunpowder Plot from a different point of view. I've just started the British Library's current Xmas short story collection - A Surprise for Christmas and ot...

December The Infirmary by L J Ross - although this is the 11th book in order of publication, it's actually a prequel and the events of the official 1st book - Holy Island - follow on directly from the end of this one. So it felt a bit odd to be reading it after 10 books, which often refer to events...

I've just started "The Lantern Men", the latest in the Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths.

I've just started "The Beauty of Broken Things" by Victoria Connelly.

November "Pine" by Francine Toon - a young girl, Lauren, lives in a small village in the Scottish Highlands with her father Niall - her mother disappeared suddenly when Laurel was tiny, and since then villagers have always wondered what happened to the strange, ethereal Christine who was into tarot...