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1 de sept. de 2024 · A roundup of the week's news of birds and the environment : A Common Gallinule enjoying a swim. *~*~*~* To prevent a climate breakdown we not only need to reduce carbon emissions; we need to restore Nature . *~*~*~* As glacial melt continues and increases, there is a danger of a megatsunami being triggered. *~*~*~* There are at least 144 species of birds that have not been seen in at least a ...
Hace 2 días · Sarah Caudwell's The Sirens Sang of Murder (1989) is partly set in Sark, and contains references to John Oxenham's The Perilous Lovers. The Last Kings of Sark: A Novel by Rosa Rankin-Gee is a 2015 coming-of-age story set in Sark.
23 de ago. de 2024 · In The Sirens Sang of Murder (a novel by Sarah Caudwell) Michael Cantrip, a young lawyer travels to Sark to take on a tax-law case. The members of his legal team must find the missing heir, but, in their task, each one of them begin to mysteriously disappear.
19 de ago. de 2024 · First thing, I owe Kingsolver an apology for complaining about the length: the edition of David Copperfield that I read weighs in at just shy of 900 pages (not counting preface, footnotes, and enclosed brief biography of Dickens).
31 de ago. de 2024 · "It's absolutely delightful, and I would recommend it to anyone who's a fan of Sarah Caudwell, or Agatha Christie, or anyone who loves really clever British murder mysteries set in the '20s." - Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl. On his...
22 de ago. de 2024 · Sarah Caudwell, the pipe-smoking author of Thus Was Adonis Murdered and three other novels featuring Oxford Don Hilary Tamar, died in 2000. "Hilary's voice was in my head before any of the plots," Caudwell told writer Martin Edwards in an interview for Mystery Scene.
6 de sept. de 2024 · Sarah Caudwell (Adult) “Set to have a vacation away from her home life and the tax man, young barrister Julia Larwood takes a trip to Italy with her art-loving boyfriend. But when her personal copy of the current Finance Act is found a few meters away from a dead body, Julia finds herself caught up in a complex fight against the ...
