For the second time in a month, I found myself in London. Unfortunately, this was a working trip, with one evening with my friend Louis (of St. Sere’ fame) (or infamy) who took me to hear progressive jazz in the underground floor of a Pizza Express not a hundred yards from the pocket park square commemorating the foppish son of the only English king to be beheaded. My only other vice was my addiction to Hatchard’s Book Store. I can’t start what I bought until I finish what’s on my nightstand…. Here we go:
1. Porcelain Steel, by Donna McAleer
2. Out of the Mist, (manuscript) by Mike Mullins
3. A History of Britain: 1780 – 1965 Simon Schama
4. The Vintage Caper, Pe…ter Mayle
…5. Monsieur Montespan, Jean Teule
6. Boss Dog and Among Friends, MFK Fisher
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Jack Woodville London’s French Letters series has been praised for its meticulous historical research and ability to capture the language, attitudes, and moral culture of their setting in prose described by reviewers as “beautiful, but not pretentious.”
French Letters: Engaged in War is the second volume in the French Letters trilogy. The companion to French Letters: Virginia’s War, it is the story of Will Hastings, an army doctor caught up in the D-Day landings in Normandy and the drive to capture St. Lo, France.
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