[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars
The Royal Family vs 'The Crown': Separating Fact from Fiction by new to me historian author C. Curzon is a beautiful, enlightening, touching, very informative book that I read cover to cover in one sitting.
Beautiful from start till the last page.
NetGalley, KD RBCK
[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars
The Royal Family vs 'The Crown': Separating Fact from Fiction by new to me historian author C. Curzon is a beautiful, enlightening, touching, very informative book that I read cover to cover in one sitting.
Beautiful from start till the last page.
NetGalley, KD RBCK
As ever the 2025 Yearbook contains a wealth of useful and interesting material for practical observers and armchair astronomers alike and is excellent value. Roll on the 2026 edition!
Popular Astronomy
As ever the 2025 Yearbook contains a wealth of useful and interesting material for practical observers and armchair astronomers alike and is excellent value. Roll on the 2026 edition!
Popular Astronomy
Enjoyed this very detailed story about the band. Learned a lot of things I didn’t know before about the band members and people in their lives as well.
NetGalley, Roxi Wasmer
Enjoyed this very detailed story about the band. Learned a lot of things I didn’t know before about the band members and people in their lives as well.
NetGalley, Roxi Wasmer
This is an honest and well accounted book about his life and death, and also incorporates the impact he had on others, particularly his cruelty to his childhood sweetheart, Jessie. It details well his enmeshment with his mother, the realities of life in a mining village and his true feelings on the futility of war.
Interesting, enlightening and well written.
NetGalley, Gem Fletcher
This is an honest and well accounted book about his life and death, and also incorporates the impact he had on others, particularly his cruelty to his childhood sweetheart, Jessie. It details well his enmeshment with his mother, the realities of life in a mining village and his true feelings on the futility of war.
Interesting, enlightening and well written.
NetGalley, Gem Fletcher
The concept and the information are wonderful.
If you are like me, and your favourite art pieces are mainly in Amsterdam, Madrid and London, and your favourite painters happen to be Dutch, you will love this book.
It works like a reminder and a guide for your future travels.
NetGalley, Didem Durak Akser
The concept and the information are wonderful.
If you are like me, and your favourite art pieces are mainly in Amsterdam, Madrid and London, and your favourite painters happen to be Dutch, you will love this book.
It works like a reminder and a guide for your future travels.
NetGalley, Didem Durak Akser
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