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Diana Jackson

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  • Diana’s Winter Book Review 10 ~ Little Wing by Freya North

    Why did you choose this book? Waterstones in #Kirkcaldy had become my regular haunt of mine over the winter. I am reading more paperbacks, rather than books on Kindle, because of my RSI problem, which I am managing relatively well now. I was browsing on Waterstone’s ‘Buy 1 Get 1 Half Price‘ tables and stumbled…

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  • Diana’s Christmas Book Review (9) ~ The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan

    Why did you choose this book? I hardly ever buy Christmas books, expecting a possible light romance type read. I might be wrong of course. Anyway, I picked Jenny Colgan’s book up in Waterstones and needed a lighter read having just recovered from Covid. It was about a bookshop too. The setting was in Edinburgh…

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  • Diana’s Winter Book Review (8) ~ The Lost Storyteller by Amanda Block

    Why did you choose this book? The title caught my eye, as did the blurb on the back; a mystery linked to fairy tales intrigued me. I did not, however, like the cover. I think the current fashion of a few little pictures embossed on a dark background, floating in the air, could have put…

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  • Flower of the Forest by Zena Meyler

    To continue the coincidences of my poignant last post. (and that wasn’t a pun) just before the Armistice Service in Kinghorn, we were away down in Yorkshire, staying at a lovely BnB near Pickering called Lowther House. We ate some fish and chips before strolling around the quaint streets of Pickering, where we found a…

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  • Diana’s Autumn Book Review (7) ‘The Island of Missing Trees’ by Elif Shafak

    Why did you choose this book? I was browsing in Waterstones and was drawn firstly by the title, which was intriguing and also mentioned an island; pertinent following my recent series of Islands of Inspiration. Secondly I loved the cover and finally, when I turned the novel over, I read David Mitchel’s review: “A wise…

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  • Diana’s Summer Book Reviews (4) Songbirds by Christy Lefteri

    Why did I choose this book? I noticed the striking cover first in Kirkcaldy Waterstones, followed by honing in on the intriguing title ‘Songbirds’ and the blurb, which instinctively drew me in. It also continued my Greek flavour since it was set in Cyprus. Did I feel empathy for a particular character? Although Nisha was…

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  • Diana’s summer book reviews (2)Travels with Epicurus by Daniel Klein

    Why did I choose this book? I didn’t choose it for myself, but as a small Christmas present for my husband to get him in the mood for travelling to Greece and also to think about life. He didn’t read it. It sat beside his bed for ages and so I decided to take it…

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  • Summer 2022 Book Review ~ The Stationery Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

    Why did I choose this book? I found it a tiny bookshop in Apollonia, the main village in Sifnos, a small Cyclades Island. There I browsed and bought this novel set in Tehran. I chose it because it is an area of the world I know so little about. I hoped to gain an understanding…

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