Brian Thompson, Author Slow Dancer Press $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-871033-48-9
As PI Patrick Ganley muses in the early stages of his search for a young woman, ""in some ways, a missing person is simply a person sought by somebody else. The searchers are the story."" That's true enough in Thompson's impressive new novel, a...
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Brian Thompson, Author, Brian M. Thomsen, Author, Celia Berridge, Illustrator Viking Children's Books $8.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-670-82154-9
The word ``dictionary,'' applied to this book, is misleading. Readers do not have the freedom to look up the spelling or meaning of a particular word. Instead, this is a browser's compendium of common objects, arranged alphabetically. As with...
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Born on Princess Victoria's birthday in 1837, Georgina Treherne Weldon lived her life with the conviction that she was destined to be one of the great figures of the age; she did, in fact, achieve a kind of celebrity, although not for the...
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Brian Thompson. Vintage U.K. (IPG, dist.), $13.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-09-953948-3
Thompson, the author of two memoirs (Keeping Mum and Clever Girl), fails to make the most of an intriguing concept in his first Victorian historical featuring Bella Wallis, a widow who writes sensational novels about "titled society whores" and "term
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Brian Thompson. Vintage U.K. (IPG, dist.), $13.95 trade paper (252p) ISBN 978-0-09-953949-0
In Thompson’s melodramatic second Victorian mystery featuring high society widow Bella Wallis (after Sept. 2011’s The Widow’s Secret), Bella, who writes “sensational” novels under the pseudonym Henry Ellis Margam to expose wrongdoers, agrees to do a
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