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Book review: The Private World of Georgette Heyer

THE PRIVATE WORLD OF GEORGETTE HEYER by Jane Aiken Hodge (Pan Books). Big, big fan. So I read anything and everything on this wonderful writer. Hodge chronicles Heyer`s writing `Black Moth` when she was just nineteen for her young brother who had taken ill; her ability to average two books a year for years, books…

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Books: Very Very Brief Takes

A quick look at some good books   PILLARS OF LIFE Magnificent Trees of the Western Ghats by Divya Mudappa and T.R.Shankar Raman. Nature Conservation Foundation Books. Saw the mention of trees and immediately bought this book! Mudappa and Shankar Raman have collated a set of thirty trees commonly found in the Western Ghats, Nirupa…

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