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Dark Danger: Malcolm Saville, Girls Gone By 2018

The third Marston Baines book was probably my least favourite of this series so far.

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Crossposts: https://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/184008.html

The Purple Valley: Malcolm Saville Girls Gone By Publishers, 2017.

Having reread ‘Three Towers in Tuscany’, I turned to its sequel, the second in the Secret Service/Marston Baines series. Simon Baines, the main character of the first book, is ( Read more... )

Crossposts: https://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/167445.html

As I tagged yesterday’s post about rereading Three Towers in Tuscany, I noticed that I had a tag for the series, clicked on it and realised I’d reread the book in 2007. Here is my review from then, which is more detailed and attempts to analyse the dialogue style. I end the review talking about looking out for more books in the series, which I did, but they were very expensive until Girls Gone By started republishing them, so it’s only taken me over a decade to get the next one!

Crossposts: https://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/166281.html

Three Towers in Tuscany: Malcolm Saville. Heineman, 1967

It seems as if everyone has been doing a Something Month, if not Dry January, Veganuary or Digital Detox January, then something this month, including blogging themes. This inspired me to do Rereading February. Don’t get too excited, my aspiration is to get my numbers of books read up from ‘abysmally poor’ to ‘relatively poor’. I have a pile of ‘books to reread’ that’s been ignored for a while. My reasoning was that a month of rereading books only might help me make a dent in it and even give some of them away. I have tended to be swayed by novelty into buying book after book and being slow to read them too. The sweetener was that I could turn to comfort books.

This book doesn’t fit into either category. As I now have ‘The Purple Valley’, the second Marston Baines mystery, I thought I should reread ‘Three Towers’, ( Read more... )

Number of books reread this month: 1.

Crossposts: https://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/166032.html

Made the unexpected purchase of a Mabel Esther Allan the other day. Well, not entirely unexpected, as charity shops and second hand bookstalls are my weakness, and you do find these books there...*

Anyway, yesterday, I reread 'Three Towers in Tuscany' after 'discovering' that it's the first in a series. I say discovering because it says so plain on the back page. My copy is a first publication and is ex-library - a Scottish library, so I got it on holiday there I think, though I can't remember the exact year and am too lazy to figure it out precisely. I must have been early to mid teens when I got it though. And I either paid 5p or 75p for it.

Three Towers in Tuscany: Malcolm Saville, Heinemann, 1963.

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*It was an English-language book at the Eisteddfod! But it's set in Wales, which is probably why they were selling it. However, I am still puzzling over their rationale for including 'Cranford' which is not set in Wales, nor does it have any overt Welsh connection. But maybe it's okay because it's a classic???

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Entries tagged with series: marston baines

REVIEW: Dark Danger

OVERVIEW: 2019 highlights

REVIEW: The Purple Valley

AFTERTHOUGHT: Three Towers in Tuscany

REREAD: Three Towers in Tuscany

REVISITING: Three Towers in Tuscany

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