Xiaolu Guo's My Battle of Hastings is the chronicle of year living in Hasting, as an outsider, during a time of war and political upheaval in Britain, and digging deep into the battle that happened there a thousand years earlier. #booksky #XiaoluGuo #barryreads

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gets Ryan (an Otago law student back for the holidays) committed to finding the truth. Although most characters are credible suspects, I pick fairly on who the culprit is.

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A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

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In Jennifer Niven's Meet the Newmans, the Newmans are a real life family who are also in a TV show about their family life. This book is an account of the reality behind the show, triggered by Dad Newman being in a coma for weeks: a woman takes over!

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