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The King of Prussia

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18. Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell

Mon Oct 7, 2019, 07:38 AM

Oct 2019

The third of the autobiographical Corfu Trilogy (it inspired a very populay TV series here). So not fiction, but nevertheless quite a lot of it didn't really happen.
Otherwise I struggled through Surfeit of Lampreys by Ngaio Marsh. A cast of characters that were thoroughly unlikeable (which I think wasn't the author's intention), and a laboured and drearily prdictable denouement. A big disappointment from someone who is normally so good.
Next up for me is Derby Day by D. J. Taylor - A victorian mystery. I was actually at school with the author, but I've never read any of his novels.

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