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Blood and Sand and Diamonds

The Burning Shore by Wilbur Smith

February 22, 2026 by Pooja Leave a Comment

When Centaine de Thiry is left destitute and pregnant after the death of her fiancé Michael Courtney during an aerial battle in World War One, she decides to make her way to Africa, where they had planned to live together after the war. This is the first book in this subsection of Wilbur Smith’s most long-running series, which follows the exploits of the Courtney family in South Africa. Like all the other books, it includes lots of adventure, drama, and some spectacular descriptions of the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: action, adventure, Africa, colonialism, historical, Romance, survival, Wilbur Smith, WW1

Pooja's CBR18 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: action, adventure, Africa, colonialism, historical, Romance, survival, Wilbur Smith, WW1 ·
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“Every war is a war against the child.”

The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear

October 5, 2025 by Pooja Leave a Comment

CBR17 Bingo: White – Behold, the cover. Also, a bonus! The title. Elinor is a veteran of two world wars and a trained killer, but all she wants now is to retreat into a peaceful, solitary existence in the English countryside. But when a violent past comes back to haunt her neighbors, she cannot help but become drawn in. I’m sure I’ll eventually get around to checking out Winspear’s long-running Maisie Dobbs series, but in the meanwhile I figured I’d pick up the standalone The […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, History Tagged With: audiobook, cbr17bingo, England, espionage, historical, Jacqueline Winspear, thriller, WW1, ww2

Pooja's CBR17 Review No:61 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, History · Tags: audiobook, cbr17bingo, England, espionage, historical, Jacqueline Winspear, thriller, WW1, ww2 ·
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A badass female spy network? What’s not to love?!

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

July 17, 2019 by kella Leave a Comment

CBR11 Bingo – Far and Away   This category is a bit broad, but hopefully a novel set on a different continent in a different time period is far enough away? 🙂 The Alice Network starts off with American co-ed Charlotte (Charlie) St. Clair travelling to Europe to get “a little problem” taken care of (1947 translation: she done got knocked up out of wedlock and her wealthy parents are insisting on an abortion in Switzerland). Charlie’s motivations for agreeing to the trip to Europe […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Suspense Tagged With: #historicalfiction, #katequinn, cbr11bingo, farandaway, spies, thealicenetwork, WW1, ww2

kella's CBR11 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction, History, Suspense · Tags: #historicalfiction, #katequinn, cbr11bingo, farandaway, spies, thealicenetwork, WW1, ww2 ·
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