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CAMINO WINDS by JOHN GRISHAM

2020 / American authors / Crime / Fiction / Thriller itemprop="discussionURL"4 Comments

Disclosure time. On our first outing to a bookshop since lockdown in March, I was quite clearly not concentrating properly. As I excitedly browsed real books, as opposed to online shopping, I thought I heard the bookshop owner say “The latest from John Grisham”. My husband heard “The latest Camino …

OPERATION MINCEMEAT by BEN MACINTYRE

2010 / History / Non Fiction / Reviews itemprop="discussionURL"Leave a comment

This enthralling book made perfect lockdown reading. Any personal, self-indulgent tendency to wallow in despair at the Coronavirus crisis swamping the world, could be put into some sort of context while reading this book. When the entire world was at war, when Hitler’s troops were planning a mass invasion of …