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|author=Gerald Wixey
|title=Salt of Their Blood
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Back in 1960 Stuart couldn’t get to sleep on a very hot night. He lived at the pub next door to the bus garage and the sounds drifted upwards. A man screamed and then there was the sound of a heavy weight falling. When he jumped out of bed he saw someone scurrying away. No one was interested in what Stuart might have heard, or seen and even he lost interest as the day after the inquest (the mechanic’s death was ‘an accident’, the coroner said) his best friend, Declan, disappeared. Twelve years later Stuart was leading a feckless life but was still convinced that there was a connection between the mechanic’s death and Declan’s disappearance. He was also involved in an illicit love affair with Kathy - and if he had to pick the wrong person then it was Kathy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848766963</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=It's a couple of years since I met Julie Fulton's [[Mrs MacCready Was Ever So Greedy by Julie Fulton and Jona Jung|Mrs MacCready]], who - in case you don't know - was ever so greedy. Remembering what a glorious romp that was, how could I resist a young friend of Julie's by the name of Tabitha Posy? Well, I didn't even try...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848860978</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Simon Morrison
|title=The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=This book is a biography of and based largely on the letters of Lina Prokofiev. Born Carlina Codina in Madrid in 1897, she spent most of her childhood in New York. After making her stage debut as a soprano in Verdi’s ‘Rigoletto’ under the name of Lina Llubera, she met the Soviet composer and pianist Serge Prokofiev, best remembered for the children’s musical fable ‘Peter and the Wolf’. They married in 1924 and for the first thirteen years of their marriage they lived in Paris, where two sons, Oleg and Svyatoslav, were born to them. Soon after moving to Moscow in 1936 their marriage fell apart. In 1941 he left her for a writer, Mira Mendelson, 24 years his junior, whom he married six years later.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846557313</amazonuk>
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