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Diana Jackson

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  • My June Reviews are a double ~ Matrix by Lauren Groff and Cuddy by Benjamin Myers

    I picked both of these books up in Waterstones and was really looking forward to sinking into them last month and so here are my honest reviews. Similarities Matrix is set firmly in the 12th Century whereas Cuddy spans from St Cuthbert’s life and death in the 7th Century to the present, both books so…

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  • Diana’s May Review ~ The Stolen Hours by Karen Swan

    This is the second of Karen Swan’s novels set on St Kilda at the time of the evacuation, each from the point of view of one of the island girls. This time it is Mhairi Mac Kinnon who is in need of a husband and she is whisked of to the nearby island of Harris…

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  • Diana’s April Book Review ~’Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade’ by Guy Browning

    I just needed to have a laugh and two books recently have listed my spirits and taken me beyond the state of the world, the suffering of those I know and love and the difficulties of life in general. Personally, we had such a good 2023, which kind of counter-balanced the shocking state of the…

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  • Highlighting a Really Good Book by Ian K Pulham

    I’m taking time out to repost a review of another Eventispress author’s debut novel. I asked Ian to describe his novel now, in the light of feedback he has had so far and he said: “If I am asked about my book now I always tell people it’s a satire on liberalism. I’ve sort of…

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  • Diana’s March Book Review ~ Appointment in Jerusalem by Derek and Lydia Prince

    This books is extremely special to me. I have read it at least three times over the years, and decided to pick it up again recently. It is the mind-blowing account of Lydia Prince, and her calling to Jerusalem, giving up her good job, income, home and family to follow her ‘calling.’ It is full…

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  • Diana’s February Review ~The Private Life of Spies by Alexander McCall Smith

    Following on from my last blog post, when a friend claimed on Facebook that I told him that I had been a spy over a few glasses of wine once upon a time (in fact he is a member if my husband’s rock n roll band), I was amused to see The Private Life of…

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  • Diana’s January Book Review ~ A Winter in New York by Josie Silver

    I couldn’t resist writing this review as my first of the year. We visited New York for the first time during a very snowy February a few years ago and so when I picked this up in Waterstones, what was there to dislike to transport me back there … I unashamedly loved this novel, the…

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  • 5 star Review from UntoldReads.com!

    Happy New Year to you all! My first resolution is to finish the sequel to MISSING Past and Present and what better encouragement for me to do so is to receive such an accolade from UntoldReads.com: “A literary gem that flawlessly combines beauty, complexity and profound depth of life, Diana Jackson’s ‘Missing Past and Present’ is narrated…

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