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The Burley Cross Post Box Theft by Nicola Barker

January 25, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

If you’ve ever read a Nicola Barker novel you more or less know what to expect, which is to mostly not know what to expect. Her books have a kind of wildness to them, and especially in voice. They’re also usually very funny. This book is all of those things.  The book begins with a long rant from a police inspector handing off a mystery to another detective. In the rant, among other things, we learn that in the small town of Burley Cross (BC) […]

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vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Nicola Barker ·
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Darkmans – Nicola Barker (2007)

Darkmans by Nicola Barker

January 12, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I have to admit a weird dumb error I made in approaching this book. It’s listed as part of a trilogy, and that this is the third book. I also found out that you don’t have to read them in order or together at all, which is good since I tried reading the first one and really didn’t like it. So then I realized about 400 pages into this book that it’s not the “Thomas Gateway” trilogy, alluding to some shadowy figure, but the “Thames […]

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vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: darkmans, Nicola Barker ·
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  • Leedock on Because when women understand chemistry, they begin to understand how things work.Soooo much better!
  • narfna on We are women without a voice…We are women out of time and place, without even the language of the country we reside in.Everything I hear about this makes me want to read it more. I've heard the audio is great, that's probably the route I'll go.
  • narfna on Because when women understand chemistry, they begin to understand how things work.The author hates the cover, too! I, like you, judged the book by the cover and was wrong. The British one is much better. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61QJVdPaRWL.jpg...
  • narfna on Her grin was tiny but evil. Adorably evil, if that was a thing.TBRed!
  • Leedock on Maiden voyagesWelcome! A Marvellous Light worked better for me, but this was a good book. I'm looking forward to the last in the trilogy when, I...
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