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Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis) Where to start with this one? There are actually some major differences between the book and the film adaptation...

Covers of Pannkakstårtan, Rävjakten, Stackars Pettson, Pettson får julbesök and Kackel i Grönsakslandet . Facebook reminded me that I met S...

This, the third book about the Honourable Phryne Fisher (and the last of the three books in my omnibus volume). She and Dot takes a train r...

Ötzi 25 years ago today (19 September 1991) the body of a man turned up in the Alps. He was dated to c. 3 300 BC ( The Chalcolithic period )...

And that's just how it is And how it's always been It's where my reason stops And something else comes in I know it doesn't ...

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. ~ George Orwell, 1984 Monument of the Vendel ...

Sigrid is the fourth book in Johanne Hildebrandt's Sagan om Valhalla series and the first one to take place in the Viking Age. The n...

Not much is known Of early days of chess Beyond a fairly vague report That fifteen hundred years ago Two princes fought, though brothers For...

Saga från Valhalla is the third book in Sagan från Valhalla series (All entries can be found here .) and the last one of the books set in...

A good thing about this blog is that I get to revisit some of my old favourites and it has been quite a while since I read this one. The f...

'Where do we start, Cec?' 'At the beginning mate,' replied Cec easily. 'At the beginning'. ~Flying too High, Kerry ...