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#books 5899 Penguin 11539 West With The Night / Beryl Markham (1988) celebrated memoir originally published in the middle of the war by an exceptional woman who lived and adventured training horses and hunting big game in Africa before solo flying the Atlanticagainst the wind (east to west)

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#books 5898 Penguin 11626 The Cold Moons / Aeron Clement (1988) "Watership Down" for badgers with the peaceful sett disturbed by a visitor bringing warning that the humans are coming to slaughter them as they had massacred his own tribe - the current cull's only point has been buying farmers' votes

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#books 5897 Penguin 11934 Traveller / Richard Adams (3rd post-1989) as neither American nor Confederacy-positive, I didn;t know that that was the name of Robert E Lee's horse, here looking back on his life with the general (who was militarily fine but still fighting unforgivably for the bad guys)

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#books 5896 Penguin 11754 Mob Star / Gene Mustain and Gerry Capeci (1989) biograpy of mafia superstar John Gotti - the "Dapper Don" - unusually written freely during his asce4ndancy as the de facto king of New York - we know that the law got him eventually but he had an extraordinary run

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#books 5895 Penguin 11842 Chelworth / Brian Thompson (1989) proof that writing "the book of the major TV series" on the cover doesn't guarantee that said series will be any gopod or in any way memorable (it's about the inheritance of the titular house & estate but had somewhat less than zero impact)

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#books 5894 Penguin 10543 Sexplicitly Yours / Gloria Walker and Lynn Daly (1987) slim cash-in reporting from the Old Bailey trial of Britain's most celebrated brothel-keeper (nowhere near as exotic as a "madam") Cynthia Payne who triumpher over her tawdry trade to become an in-your-face celebrity

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#books 5893 Penguin 10338 Goodbye Soldier / Spike Milligan (1987) staying on in Italy after being demobbed and madly in love with a local woman - what skeins of fate will draw him home? 6th volume of war memoirs now very straight indeed compared to the zany early entries

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First they came for the innocent man deported to a Salvadoran gulag on an “administrative error” they falsely claim they’re powerless to reverse, flouting court orders even from the Supreme Court — and I spoke out, because I know how the damn poem ends.

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dragged into the office today - £8 parking, £2.70 for a (price increased since I wass last in) cup of coffe and the £2.40 loose change I'd brought in to buy coffee wit funnelled into a collection for a leaving colleague and a poorly boss. Can't afford to keep going in! (wfh rest of week tbf)

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#books 5892 Penguin 7133 The Woman In Black / Susan Hill (1984) brisk tale well-suited by Hill's experienced, pruned prose : as with all good literary ghost stories, it's what's not said that really makes the impact and the atmospherics were then translated into a colossally successful stage version

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#books 20981 Penguin 12958 Cover Her Face / P D James (1989, gift) written in 1962 at the transition point of crime fiction society : the victim is an unsuitable parlourmaid ast the manor house but a couple of years later, Miss Marple has the lovely Cherry from the new estate coming in to help out

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#books 5891 Penguin 7140 Urban Renewal / Reynolds Dodson (1985) damaged men bonding over booze & their shared resentment of the women who have failed to deliver them the fulfillment & stability they believe is their birthright - fairly gentle stuff in light of how such attitudes now shape US polity

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#books 5890 Penguin 11590 The Man From The Sea / Michael Innes thriller without his serial detective Appleby but with another of the endless supply of stately homes/estates where a naked soggy swimmer washes up claiming to be a diamond smuggler while our hero's having a midnight tryst

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#books 5889 Penguin 11851 Rough Treatment / John Harvey (1991) one of Inspector Charlie Resnick's cats (I forgot about the cats ; it's probably Bud) makes it on to the cover : it's the one about the high class burglar who meets his match in a bored West Bridgford housewife with showbiz connections

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#books 5888 Penguin 11772 Holy Disorders / Edmund Crispin (3rd post-1958) the attempted murder of a cathedral organist attracts the attention of fiendish crime-solver Gervaise Fen & the mystery escalates when the replacement is interfered with also - seedy religious institutions & black magic : fun

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#books 5887 Penguin 12822 Stone Alone / Bill Wyman (2nd post 1991) astutely credits ghostwriter Ray Coleman on the front cover as his writing on rock and roll has an audience greater than those curious about life as the Stones' bassist and his unhealthy interest in young girls

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#books 5886 Penguin 11571 London Fields / Martin Amis (7th post-1990) Amis had a close-up view and strog understanding of the fresh breeds of horror, brutality and delusion that took hold in London in the late '80's and have been at the core of so much evil, cruelty and exploitation since

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#books 5885 Penguin 11506 The Kimberley Killing / Peter Corris (1988) a novel taking characters from some Australian TV series I've never heard of & setting them off an a fresh investigation when they accidentally discover a former Attorney-General's secret - stamped as a freebie for QANTAS patrons

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#books 5884 Penguin 11176 The Accidental Tourist / Anne Tyler (4th post-1986) guidebook writer's mid-life temptation with the cookie local dog-whisperer far more appealing than initially expected due to the appeal of the character and the sadnesses underlying his cosy life

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#books 5883 Penguin 27876 One Hundred Years Of Solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Penguin 23rd post-1973) the last of a dynasty looks back on his family's century in their private enclave deep in the South American jungle, a place where reality is magically different for both good and evil

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