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Post by annis » Mon February 23rd, 2009, 2:33 am

Posted by Chuck
Robert Low's new Oathsworn third should be out soon.
10 days to go, according to Book Depository! Though this looks like a HB edition- quite a bit longer to go for the PB version. I'm thinking about it, but I'm trying to be more frugal with the bookbuying this year, and even without paying postage it would be NZ$32.00

The one that I really, really want is Richard Blake's second novel set in the early 7th century, the follow up to "Conspiracies of Rome", which I loved. It's called "The Terror of Constantinople", and BD have it, but again it's a HB and would cost about NZ$50.00. Darn it, I'm just going to have to hang out till the PB edition is published :(

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Post by chuck » Mon February 23rd, 2009, 5:32 am

[quote=""annis""]Posted by Chuck


10 days to go, according to Book Depository! Though this looks like a HB edition- quite a bit longer to go for the PB version. I'm thinking about it, but I'm trying to be more frugal with the bookbuying this year, and even without paying postage it would be NZ$32.00

The one that I really, really want is Richard Blake's second novel set in the early 7th century, the follow up to "Conspiracies of Rome", which I loved. It's called "The Terror of Constantinople", and BD have it, but again it's a HB and would cost about NZ$50.00. Darn it, I'm just going to have to hang out till the PB edition is published :( [/quote]

Thanks Annis for the update On Low's latest novel....Now I need to bug my library to put it their new books list.....picke(Library) Holland's latest "The High City"....Basil II, Constantinople, Varagarian guards and murderous courtly intrigues....looks good....and I like most of CH's books....

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Post by annis » Mon February 23rd, 2009, 6:42 am

Sometimes publication dates can differ for the UK and the US but Amazon.com have Low's "White Raven" listed for release 5 March, so it's must be the same timing for both markets.

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Post by Vanessa » Tue March 3rd, 2009, 8:22 am

I'm in 1890's New York with Miss Lily Bart in House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, who seems to be causing some considerable scandal! Jezebel! :D
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Post by diamondlil » Tue March 3rd, 2009, 8:28 am

I am in Norway in 1948 not far from the Swedish border.
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Post by Volgadon » Tue March 3rd, 2009, 12:09 pm

Sounds interesting what book is that.

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Post by Richard » Tue March 3rd, 2009, 1:17 pm

I'm on the quarterdeck of a Venetian sailing ship, just over 3000 cubits from land. This distance has significance for exactly one member of the crew. It is summer, 828, and Venice has recently aqcuired a new patron saint.

I expect to be "frozen" here for quite some time as I research the next happenings.
How did an 800-year-old headless corpse transform Venice from a backwater
into the greatest sea-empire of the early Middle Ages? Find out at,
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Post by Leo62 » Tue March 3rd, 2009, 1:19 pm

I'm shuttling about the north of England and Scotland, getting timetraveller's nosebleed between present day and and Iron Age.

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Post by Richard » Tue March 3rd, 2009, 1:23 pm

[quote=""Leo62""]I'm shuttling about the north of England and Scotland, getting timetraveller's nosebleed between present day and and Iron Age.[/quote]

Leo62- I'll be your constant!
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Post by Ash » Tue March 3rd, 2009, 1:39 pm

I am in the midst of Henry IIIs reign, and am discovering just what a horrid little man he was.

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