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Eceni 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌈

The old book is on a reduced rate (and not only on the Giant Vampire Squid)

What happens if the virus of fascism is injected undiluted into the body politic of a nation?

seems a good question back in the day.

ebooks.com/en-gb/book/1157955/

#Writers
#Books
#HistoricalFiction

eBooks.comA Treachery of SpiesTHRILLER OF THE MONTH ‘Superb . . . a blend of historical imagination and storytelling verve reminiscent of Robert Harris.’ The Sunday Times'The most exciting, involving thriller I've read in an age, and I can't recommend it highly enough.' Mick Herron *A Treachery of Spies is an espionage thriller to rival the very best, a high stakes game of cat-and-mouse, played in the shadows, which will keep you guessing every step of the way.A body has been found. The elderly victim’s identity has been cleverly obscured but one thing is clear: she has been killed in the manner of traitors to the Resistance in World War Two.To find answers in the present, police inspector Inès Picaut must look to the past; to 1940s France, a time of sworn allegiances and broken promises, where the men and women of the Resistance fought for survival against Nazi invaders.But, as Picaut soon discovers, there are those in the present whose futures depend on the past remaining buried, and who will kill to keep their secrets safe. Old fashioned espionage might be a thing of the past but treachery is as dangerous as ever.*'This is a rich vein for fiction, and Scott does it more than justice, with this beautifully imagined, beautifully written, smart, sophisticated - but fiercely suspenseful - thriller.' Lee Child'The most exquisite story of heroism, deception, love and treachery you’ll find this year.' Simon Mayo 'A fast-moving tightly-wrought thriller. The destination is in fact as unexpected as it’s satisfying - and very thought-provoking.' Robert Goddard'A Treachery of Spies is a masterclass in thriller-writing. It is a heart-racing, heart-wrenching read, conceived with passion and executed with frightening skill. An awe-inspiring achievement.' Giles Kristian
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Kyra Davis Lurie

As the #Trump regime deletes the bio of Gen. Colin Powell and the story of the 6888th Central Battalion (the 1st all black women battalion) from the Arlington Cemetery website and bans #Books about #blackhistory from being discussed in presidential #libraries it seems like a good time to talk about how to just exist in #america as a black person is a political act.
#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #bookstodon

kyradavisauthor.substack.com/p

Blood, Sweat & Words by Kyra Davis Lurie · The Politics Of Being BlackBy Kyra
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Project Gutenberg

"Il y a aujourd'hui trois cent quarante-huit ans six mois et dix-neuf jours que les parisiens s'éveillèrent au bruit de toutes les clochés sonnant à grande volée dans la triple enceinte de la Cité, de l'Université et de la Ville."

#OTD in 1831.

Victor Hugo's historical romantic Gothic novel Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, is published by Gosselin in Paris.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunc

Notre-Dame de Paris at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/2610

The main characters depicted in a frontispiece illustration by Aimé de Lemud (Notre-Dame de Paris, Perrotin éditeur, Garnier frères, 1844). Aimé de Lemud - This image comes from the Gallica online library under ARK identifier bpt6k15139651/f13 illustration by Aimé de Lemud for the frontispiece of Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame de Paris, Perrotin éditeur, Garnier frères, 1844.
Illustration from Victor Hugo et son temps (1881) Luc-Olivier Merson (1846–1920) - Here Drawing of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, showing the recently restored galerie des chimères. A cloaked figure, likely Claude Frollo, the archdeacon in Hugo's novel, is standing on a high balcony or gallery of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. He is leaning against the balustrade, looking pensively over the cityscape of medieval Paris, with rooftops, chimneys, and the Seine River visible in the background. Surrounding him are several gargoyle sculptures, which are iconic elements of Gothic architecture and Notre-Dame itself.
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Project Gutenberg

"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."

#OTD in 1850.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical novel The Scarlet Letter is published by William Ticknor and James T. Fields in Boston, Massachusetts, where it is set. It sells 2,500 copies in ten days.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scar

The Scarlett Letter at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/33

Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of "The Scarlet Letter" (1850), regarded this painting, which William Walters commissioned from Merle in 1859, as the finest illustration of his novel. Set in Puritan Boston, the novel relates how Hester Prynne was publicly disgraced and condemned to wear a scarlet letter "A" for adultery. Arthur Dimmesdale, the minister who fathered her child, and Roger Chillingworth, Hester's elderly husband, appear in the background. Merle's canvas reflects some of the same 19th-century historical interest in the Puritans as Hawthorne's book, a fascination that reached its peak with the establishment of Thanksgiving as a national holiday in 1863. By depicting Hester and her daughter, Pearl, in a pose that recalls that of the Madonna and Child, Merle underlines "The Scarlet Letter"'s themes of sin and redemption.
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Ken Lussey

Relentless pursuit and a grisly murder. ‘Hide and Seek’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Stirling Castle and more widely across Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.

This modern image shows a recreation of a Travellers’ camp at the Highland Folk Museum that has similarities to one visited in Perthshire by two of the central characters in the book.

Find out more on my website:
kenlussey.com/has/index.html

This modern image shows a recreation of a Travellers’ camp at the Highland Folk Museum. There’s a cart in the foreground with a hooped tent beyond it, covered by a green tarpaulin, standing in a woodland clearing. The front cover of ‘Hide and Seek’ is shown in the bottom right corner.
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Hannu Ikonen, MD

Help me pick my next read.

Or dont.

IDGAF.

I gave up on Fortune Falls because book 1 was communalist survivalism & book 2 is " oh btw yall get Super Soldier Serum " out of literally nowhere.

So yeah, a paradigm shift of that magnitude is jumping the shark for me.

So with that in mind..what is next?

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