GHOST DREAMS BY MATTHEW HUGHES

Ghost Dreams by Matthew Hughes, PS publishing 2022 - Stan Winkelman, career burglar from a long family line of light-fingered criminals, is nearing the end of his career and thinking about retirement on a tropical island.  His wife has been dead for a long time, having left him the sole care-giver of Jeannie, a now …

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POLITICAL CORRECTNESS FROM A DAHL’S EYE VIEW

Roald Dahl would have loved the attention he’s been getting lately - while alive he courted controversy and was often inspired to tweak people's sensibilities with outlandish statements.  On the other hand, given how carefully he crafted his work, he probably would have had apoplexy over the intention of his publisher to create new editions …

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STRUCTURES OF INDIFFERENCE BY McCALLUM & PERRY

Structures of Indifference by McCallum and Perry, University of Manitoba Press, 2018 - In September of 2008 Brian Sinclair, a first nation's man who, earlier in life, had lost both his legs to frostbite, wheeled himself into the emergency room of Winnipeg's Health Science Centre. He had an infection that was easily treatable. Sinclair was …

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BRING UP THE BODIES BY HILARY MANTEL

Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel, HarperCollins 2012 A sequel to Mantel's celebrated 'Wolff Hall' (2009), 'Bring Up the Bodies' chronicles the life and machinations of Thomas Cromwell during the downfall of Anne Boleyn. The literary field is littered with movies, books and plays about Anne Boleyn. She has been portrayed as everything from …

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A PLACE OF GREATER SAFETY BY HILARY MANTEL

A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel, Atheneum Press, 1992 - If you’ve read ‘Wolf Hall’  you might already be a fan of Hilary Mantel.  If you haven’t read ‘Wolf Hall’, her book about the life and times of Thomas Cromwell (Henry VIII’s chief political architect after the fall of Cardinal Wolsey), you should.  …

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