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« Reply #2375 on: April 30, 2021, 12:55:16 PM »
Read that recently; fascinating book.
Mapp and Lucia - EF Benson
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« Reply #2376 on: April 30, 2021, 01:46:39 PM »
Lucia: A Roman Slave's Tale - Steven A. McKay


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« Reply #2377 on: April 30, 2021, 03:44:57 PM »
Ben Hur:- Lew Wallace
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« Reply #2378 on: April 30, 2021, 03:52:20 PM »
Chariots of the Gods - Erich von Daniken

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« Reply #2379 on: April 30, 2021, 04:01:15 PM »
Circus Maximus: Race to the Deathby Annelise Gray
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« Reply #2380 on: April 30, 2021, 04:09:52 PM »
Dead Cert - Dick Francis

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« Reply #2381 on: April 30, 2021, 04:35:08 PM »
Dialogues of The Dead - 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 #2382 on: April 30, 2021, 04:38:23 PM »
Talking With Psychopaths and Savages - Christopher Berry-Dee


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« Reply #2383 on: April 30, 2021, 05:36:05 PM »
First Steps In Winemaking - the appropriately-named CJJ Berry.
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 #2384 on: April 30, 2021, 06:02:24 PM »
Sideways - Rex Pickett (book about wine trip, made into film)
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« Reply #2385 on: April 30, 2021, 06:42:17 PM »
The Longest Crawl - Ian Marchant (about a pub crawl from the Scillies to the Shetlands)
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 #2386 on: April 30, 2021, 06:53:56 PM »
Raw Spirit, In Search of the Perfect Dram - Iain Banks

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« Reply #2387 on: April 30, 2021, 09:43:16 PM »
The Malt Whisky Companion - Michael Jackson (not that one)
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 #2388 on: April 30, 2021, 09:44:49 PM »
The Good Companions - JB Priestley

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« Reply #2389 on: May 01, 2021, 06:30:47 PM »
The Friends by Rosa Guy
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« Reply #2390 on: May 02, 2021, 07:07:58 AM »
My Story - Rosa Parks
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 #2391 on: May 02, 2021, 03:48:41 PM »
Park Life - The Memoirs of a Royal Parks Gamekeeper
by John Bartram and John Karter
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« Reply #2392 on: May 02, 2021, 04:03:07 PM »
Blur: 3862 Days: The Official History -  Stuart Maconie


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« Reply #2393 on: May 03, 2021, 08:37:13 PM »
In Focus - Anna Jacobs
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 #2394 on: May 03, 2021, 09:09:29 PM »
What is Cinema? - Andre Bazin
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« Reply #2395 on: May 03, 2021, 10:48:43 PM »
The Movie Maker by Herbert Kastle
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« Reply #2396 on: May 04, 2021, 12:26:38 AM »
Final Cut - Steven Bach

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« Reply #2397 on: May 04, 2021, 10:15:04 PM »
Finale: A Caraval Novel by Stephanie Garber
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« Reply #2398 on: May 05, 2021, 08:38:07 AM »
Curtain - Agatha Christie

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« Reply #2399 on: May 06, 2021, 05:13:42 PM »
Curtain Call by Anthony Quinn
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