Category: Rooties Recent Reading
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Sharpe's Regiment (Bernard Cornwell)
Just as I thought my interest in the Sharpe series was waning, I read this magnificent story. How can an adventurous military action be made from a period in time where Sharpe is sent back to England to find and return to Spain with his regiments reinforcements? The story is the reinforcements don’t exist according…
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Sharpe's Devil (Bernard Cornwell)
It’s taken me a month or so to add this to my recent reading list. I didn’t enjoy it as much as the other sharpe books. It is the last in the series, bringing Sharpe and his Sergeant out of retirement to search for a friend who is missing. En route they meet Napoleon, survive…
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A Fine Night for Dying (Jack Higgins, a.k.a "Martin Fallon")
Rhonda bought this for me because it was cheap at the supermarket. Cheaper than some of the second hand books I’ve been buying at just 1. It’s a James Bond type thriller, secret agent (Paul Chavasse) has to find out who was behind the death of a man washed up on the shores of England.…