[quote=""Kasthu""]Two books came into my house this evening, both nonfiction:
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, by Daniel Pool
The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France, by Eric Jager.[/quote]
Both of those books are very good, especially the first one. All sorts of neat tidbits about life in the nineteenth century, and very useful if you're reading either Austen or Dickens. The second is just a damn good story, and unputdownable.
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- Vanessa
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- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
I received the Josephine Bonaparte Trilogy by Sandra Gulland today comprising of:
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrow of Josephine B
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
The Last Great Dance on Earth
I got them on Ebay for £1.99 plus p&p. I thought they were a bargain!
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrow of Josephine B
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
The Last Great Dance on Earth
I got them on Ebay for £1.99 plus p&p. I thought they were a bargain!
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Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
- SonjaMarie
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[quote=""Vanessa""]I received the Josephine Bonaparte Trilogy by Sandra Gulland today comprising of:
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrow of Josephine B
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
The Last Great Dance on Earth
I got them on Ebay for £1.99 plus p&p. I thought they were a bargain![/quote]
Oh great bargain! Those are really good books, I enjoyed them immensely!
SM
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrow of Josephine B
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
The Last Great Dance on Earth
I got them on Ebay for £1.99 plus p&p. I thought they were a bargain![/quote]
Oh great bargain! Those are really good books, I enjoyed them immensely!
SM
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DeepDiscount is shipping out the newest J.D Robb book to me today, "Promises In Death".
Can't wait to read it, usually takes me a few days, 3 or less if it's really good!
SM
Can't wait to read it, usually takes me a few days, 3 or less if it's really good!
SM
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- sweetpotatoboy
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[quote=""Madeleine""]Just ordered "The Secret River" from play.com, and "The Marais Assassin" from CD-Wow.[/quote]
CD-Wow are doing books again? Oh, I see they are. They offered them for a short time a year or so ago and then stopped. They must only have just started doing them again.
So this is another option for non-UK customers to order UK books at UK prices with free shipping worldwide. Though I think the stock is quite spotty and the search function is poor.
CD-Wow are doing books again? Oh, I see they are. They offered them for a short time a year or so ago and then stopped. They must only have just started doing them again.
So this is another option for non-UK customers to order UK books at UK prices with free shipping worldwide. Though I think the stock is quite spotty and the search function is poor.
- sweetpotatoboy
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Book Depository are a hard act to beat as far as buying from the UK goes.
Just picked up a copy from an online auction of George Herman's "Carnival of Saints", a mystery set in Italy during the Renaissance, and featuring the Commedia dell'arte.
Just picked up a copy from an online auction of George Herman's "Carnival of Saints", a mystery set in Italy during the Renaissance, and featuring the Commedia dell'arte.