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I like reading crime novels but also historical fiction and books set in exotic locations. If you combine all three, you are on to a winner.

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My Reading Challenges


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Daphne du Maurier

Daphne du Maurier was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her most famous book was Rebecca which was published in 1938 and has never gone out of print

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LM Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author best known for the Anne of Green Gables series set on Prince Edward Island. The Anne books are still considered children’s classics today.

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John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck was an American author best know for his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Grapes of Wrath which has sold more than 14 million copies worldwide.

Adapted

When your favourite book hits the screen


Hearing your favourite book is being adapted for the large or small screen can be an anxious time. Will it be a triumph or a disaster?

Books have always been a fertile ground for film makers but nothing can compare with a reader’s imagination which makes casting and interpretation a dicey business.

Readers can be your worst or best critic and it takes a lot to please us.

Inspired

When characters come back to life


All readers have characters they have fallen in love with and dream about what life was like for them after the last page or even before the first page.

Some authors have answered those questions and presented readers with sequels, prequels or even spin-offs. And its not just the characters who are getting the re-imagining treatment as some of your favourite authors are getting it too!

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The Fake Wife by Sharon Bolton

The Fake Wife by Sharon Bolton

THE FAKE WIFE SHARON BOLTON Olive Anderson has accepted that tonight she’ll be dining alone, without her husband. So when a beautiful stranger appears at Olive’s dinner table, telling the waiter she’s her wife, Olive is immediately unsettled.  But the stranger wants to talk, and isn’t this what Olive wants on this lonely winter night? To vent to a perfect stranger? She’s too ashamed to tell her real friends the truth – six months into the marriage they all warned her against, her life is a living nightmare. Perhaps Olive should have asked the fake wife who she’s really married to. Perhaps…

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“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.” – William Styron