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Amazing Story of an Extraordinary Couple

Advantages: Well written
Disadvantages: Some of the smaller details, like inventories, were overlong

They say that truth is stranger than fiction and this novel of the amazing life of Florence Baker is truly unbelievable. Barbara Maria Szasz (the future Florence Baker) was born in Transylvania in 1845. At the age of 4 her mother and brothers wer ...

Louisa88 24.01.2010 · Read full review
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Review of To the Heart of the Nile - Pat Shipman

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Life of Brian

Advantages: An enjoyable read about a nice bloke
Disadvantages: Nothing terribly exciting happens

"My name is Arthur Smith, unless there's anybody here from Streatham Tax Office, in which case I'm Daphne Fairfax." This is how Arthur Smith admits he's been opening his act for years but, in fact, he's neither Arthur Smith nor Daphne Fairfax. In reali ...

ladybracknell 02.04.2011 · Read full review
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Review of My Name is Daphne Fairfax - Arthur Smith

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Advantages: Detail, detail, detail
Disadvantages: Ditto

'Very well written, critical and thoroughly researched' it says on the back. Well, two out of three ain't bad, as some other popster had it. The other quote is 'Rigorously researched and thoroughly readable'. Notably these quotes are for the author an ...

hiker 10.04.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Springsteen: Point Blank - Christopher Sandford

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