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« Reply #325 on: June 26, 2018, 09:37:48 PM »
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
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« Reply #326 on: June 26, 2018, 09:41:16 PM »
Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian

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« Reply #327 on: June 27, 2018, 11:40:36 AM »
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit - the late, great P.G.Wodehouse
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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« Reply #328 on: June 27, 2018, 11:47:07 AM »
Murther and Walking Spirits - Robertson Davies

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« Reply #329 on: June 27, 2018, 01:17:14 PM »
Our Inner spirit by Patricia A. Giebel
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« Reply #330 on: June 30, 2018, 01:46:52 PM »
There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union by Reginald Hill
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. - God is Love.

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« Reply #331 on: June 30, 2018, 10:23:08 PM »
Red Spectres: Russian Gothic Tales from the Twentieth Century by Muireann Maguire (Translator),  Valery Bryusov (Contributor) & many others
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« Reply #332 on: July 01, 2018, 04:11:16 PM »
Come on Russia. Germany, Argentina and Portuhal out. Only Spain and Brasil to go. The teams I hate the most.
Peace through superior firepower.
Do not believe anything until the Kremlin denies it.

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« Reply #333 on: July 01, 2018, 04:35:15 PM »
Wrong thread.
The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy.
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
Robert Macfarlane

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« Reply #334 on: July 01, 2018, 08:44:42 PM »
Autumn by Ali Smith
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« Reply #335 on: July 09, 2018, 08:52:23 PM »
A Lonely Summer in Kashmir by Margaret Cotter Morison
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« Reply #336 on: July 20, 2018, 01:16:24 PM »
The Scarlet Sword - H E Bates


(Set in Kashmir mainly)

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« Reply #337 on: July 20, 2018, 01:20:10 PM »
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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« Reply #338 on: July 20, 2018, 01:58:24 PM »
Vive la Revolution! - Mark Steel

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« Reply #339 on: July 21, 2018, 06:59:33 PM »
Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevara
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« Reply #340 on: July 22, 2018, 11:28:26 AM »



Gorillas in the Mist: A Remarkable Story of Thirteen Years Spent Living with the Greatest of the Great Apes - Dian Fossey

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« Reply #341 on: July 22, 2018, 01:43:01 PM »
Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana Jr.
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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« Reply #342 on: July 23, 2018, 05:59:58 PM »
By the Mast Divided by David Donachie
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« Reply #343 on: August 06, 2018, 09:19:35 AM »

Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls - Tim Marshall 

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« Reply #344 on: August 11, 2018, 03:37:28 PM »
The Age of Reason by Jean Paul Sartre
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« Reply #345 on: August 11, 2018, 03:54:51 PM »
Reasons to Stay Alive - Matt Haig

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« Reply #346 on: August 11, 2018, 05:08:53 PM »
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
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« Reply #347 on: August 11, 2018, 06:28:01 PM »
Recalled to Life by Reginald Hill
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. - God is Love.

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« Reply #348 on: August 11, 2018, 06:34:31 PM »
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
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« Reply #349 on: August 17, 2018, 03:00:05 PM »
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann