The first of the "Special Places" series, this established guide is a bestseller. With its huge variety and range of good value places to stay, it's an indispensable guide for... more
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The first of the "Special Places" series, this established guide is a bestseller. With its huge variety and range of good value places to stay, it's an indispensable guide for those travelling round France - it is as much about making good friends as staying in really beautiful homes. Fresh, informative write-ups are backed up by excellent maps and directions, symbols and quick reference indices. Our approach is unusual. There are no set rules, no interminable checklists and no hard-and-fast criteria for inclusion. We look for what we like, and celebrate the unusual, the beautiful and the individual.
Advantages: Page-turning brilliance Disadvantages: Finding the time to read the 616 pages quickly enough
...On the edge of the chasm that gives the City its name, life is hard. The Melding Plague has turned Man’s technology against him, from the millions of nanotech medichines that swarm through his blood to the once-mighty orbital stations that now form the ironically-named Rust Belt around the plague’s originating planet of Yellowstone. Seven years ago the main planet of the Epsilon Eridani system and its “Glitter Band” were in the midst of a Golden Age, and their transformation is something of a surprise to the recently-arrived Tanner Mirabel. Nothing really shocks this man though; he has after all been ambushed, shot out of orbit and left for dead – and not necessarily in that order either. After sleeping for close-on fifteen years, his memories are understandably hazy, and a short stay at the Hotel Amnesia is very definitely in order...
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Advantages: lighthearted, well written, good characterisation Disadvantages: A little predictable in places
...Having just caught her boyfriend Alastair in bed with another woman, Hetty, our heroine is suffering from a broken heart. Her mother thinks and ideal cure would be for her to house sit for her Uncle Samuel - not really an Uncle, more a second cousin a few times removed, who is in hospital and doesn't want Courtbridge house, the stately home he inherited, to be left empty.
However, what initially looked to be an easy way of spending a few weeks till her heart mends turns out to be anything but as Hetty discovers details of Samuels mounting debts and has to come up with ever more ingeneous ways to make the house pay for itself with the help of her new friends in the village, the eligible Peter and Caroline, the local Brown Owl.
Another spanner in the works comes in the form of Connor, Samuels nearest relative and the man who...
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