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|title=Effie Gray

|author=Suzanne Fagence Cooper

|rating=4.5

|genre=Biography

|summary=Effie Gray was born in Perth in 1828, and knew art critic John Ruskin from an early age. When he finally decided to ask her to be his wife, she called off an engagement and happily accepted.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715648578</amazonuk>

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|author=Sammy Looker

|summary=A derelict mental hospital, gloomy railway arches, the bleak countryside of the English coast. It all comes at us in grey flashes. If ''Wreaking'' was a film, it would saturated with cool tones. It’s an easy novel to visualise: Scudamore’s spare, elegant style creates an almost palpable atmosphere.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009952385X</amazonuk>

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~~|title=Victoria: A Life~~

~~|author=A N Wilson~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Biography~~

|summary=Every few years, it seems, we are presented with another generously-sized biography of Queen Victoria. How many times can another author follow Elizabeth Longford, Stanley Weintraub, or Christopher Hibbert to name but three, produce 500 pages or more and still say something new about her? Can the blurb’s claim that this shows us the sovereign ‘as she’s never been seen before’ really be justified? Fortunately it can, for even more than a century after her death, there is still new material from previously unseen sources to add to what we already know about her.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848879563</amazonuk>~~

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