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A Food And Booze Tour With Harry Bosch

February 9, 2019August 19, 2019 Derek Haines176 Views 0 Comments Food, Los Angeles min read

Crime writing and food: a classic combo It is well-known that detectives have healthy appetites. Of course, this is particularly true amongst European detectives, from

France

Paris On The Slab – The Woman In White

November 14, 2018August 17, 2019 Derek Haines172 Views 0 Comments Dickens, Paris min read

The ancestor of crime and detective novels The Woman in White, written in 1859 by Wilkie Collins, was a hugely successful novel. It first appeared

Israel Middle East

When And How I Came To Read O Jerusalem!

November 8, 2018August 17, 2019 Derek Haines151 Views 0 Comments Jerusalem, Palestine, Tel Aviv min read

Why I read O Jerusalem!, in Jerusalem It was in early 2001 that I left my life in the Australian suburbs behind me to live

China

Dirk Struan The First Tai-Pan By James Clavell

November 7, 2018August 18, 2019 Derek Haines178 Views 0 Comments Ayn Rand, Changi, Hong Kong, Sydney, Vevey min read

James Clavell was the master of historical fiction The author James Clavell was born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell in Sydney, Australia in 1921. He was