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John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
morrow.” She addressed it to Tommy at his club, from which in one short month he would have to resign, unless
Agatha Christie • Agatha Christie: The Collection
It was a risk to mention the Royal Shakespeare Company, and RADA, but the Discreet Mourners woman failed to link Astrid Miller, Audrey Hepburn’s Friend One, with the Astrid Fellowes who had been at the centre of a scandal in the 1970s and had gone mad on stage at the National, midway through a matinee of Macbeth.
Lucy Atkins • Windmill Hill
Mrs Renfrew, the colonel’s widow, was not only unexceptionable in point of breeding, but also interesting on the ground of her complaint, which puzzled the doctors, and seemed clearly a case wherein the fulness of professional knowledge might need the supplement of quackery.
Rosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
name was wrong: ‘Miss Fawnbrake’ belonged to a coltish,
Stacey Halls • The Familiars: The spellbinding Sunday Times Bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick
The “poor chap” of whom the Colonel was thinking was his son, Denis, now a prisoner of war in Japanese hands. Whether the Colonel’s epithet was due to Denis’s plight or to the wife he had married was uncertain, but Colonel St Cyres disliked his daughter-in-law as heartily as any well-bred man allowed himself to dislike a woman.
E. C. R. Lorac • Fire in the Thatch
Susan Cornelia Clarke Warren,