The Little Book of Scones by Liam D’Arcy and Grace Hall – Published by Square Peg (part of Random House) 2013 With recipes for sweet and savoury scones, traditional scones and those with...

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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams Published by Portfolio, November 2013 This is described as (sort of) Scott...

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Star Over Bethlehem and other stories by Agatha Christie Mallowan Published by HarperCollins ebooks and in a hardback facsimile edition, November 2010 Prompted by the recent TV broadcast of the final Poirot...

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Joey in Cornwall by Jean Rolt Published as an eBook, available via Smashwords, November 2013 A novella length book based on the legend of Jesus’ visit to the Roseland, the story aims...

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Tregony Happenings: Memories and Photographs of Tregony and District 1886-1921 by Franklin Grigg Available from the author at info@tregonyhistory.co.uk or from Waterstones, Truro The clue is in the title; this is a...

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Christmas Yves by Nicola May Published as an ebook, available via Amazon and kobo, November 2013 As regular readers of my reviews will know, I’m not a fan of romance (in stories,...

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Maxwell’s movie by MJ Trow – Published by Thistle June 2013 The third in Meirion Trow’s ‘Mad Max’ series of crime novels, featuring teacher Peter Maxwell, his woman policeman (sic) partner and the...

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Wild Tales by Graham Nash – Published in hardback by Viking, September 2013 This is singer-songwriter Nash’s own story of his journey from junior school in Manchester to his life as a member...

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The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett – Published by Faber & Faber in paperback 2008 In pursuit of her corgis, Her Majesty The Queen enters the City of Westminster mobile library parked at...

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