Tag: books
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the only safe space is death
Would you have been safe from Madame Guillotine in the 1790s? Hilary Mantel brings Revolutionary France to life in A Place of Greater Safety.
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Living through books: The reading list
Because everything that is worthwhile can be quantified (ha), last year I set myself the target of reading 56 books before the end of 2016. Enough to challenge myself, but not so many to be impossible. But, inevitably, I kept choosing books that were less challenging and time-consuming, just so I could hit my target. […]
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Running through books #2: Heat by Ranulph Fiennes
They say you should never meet your heroes. And in the case of me and Ranulph Fiennes, I think they would be probably correct. Intimidating doesn’t cover it. This is the man who got a nasty case of frostbite while on expedition and, when he was in too much pain to wait out the required five […]
Alice Sinclair 