Books

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The Man in the Iron Mask, by Alexandre Dumas which continues the adventures of the musketeers he had previously written about in his romantic and exciting novels. However there really was a man who was imprisoned for thirty-four years whose identity was concealed… not by an iron mask but by a black velvet one. There […]

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Cover story… or not…

Just browsing in a bookshop, a favourite occupation, and I had one of those silly moments when you mis-see something. There was a display of classic novels and I was surprised by the cover picture for the novel… except I hadn’t looked carefully enough… This liaison looks extremely dangerous! ‘Pride and Prejudice’ takes on a […]

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