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"The story of the Grail, usually identified as some kind of mystical vessel, has gripped the imaginations of millions since …
This ingeniously constructed masterpiece, written by one of Japan's most celebrated crime writers and translated into English for the first …
An anthology of over thirty Trans and Gender Nonconforming creators unite to voice their rage, and the rules of conventional …
'An invaluable guide to the forces of American conspiracy theory that are currently bending our world out of shape' Gabriel …
'An invaluable guide to the forces of American conspiracy theory that are currently bending our …
Unfortunately this isn't really what I was looking for. Good on narrative, but much weaker on analysis.
Unfortunately this isn't really what I was looking for. Good on narrative, but much weaker on analysis.
12th-century Shrewsbury monks go to Wales to recover a 7th-century saint’s relics, and meet opposition from the relics’ keepers. Then …
12th-century Shrewsbury monks go to Wales to recover a 7th-century saint’s relics, and meet opposition …
I may have spent far, far too much time down the old-fashioned murder mystery rabbit hole when my kids were little, absorbing Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh, but this didn't really seem to resemble a murder mystery as I'd recognize it. A pleasant enough medieval story, but the murder seemed a bit incidental (and yes, I realize it does sound a bit weird to complain about a story being insufficiently murder-ey, but it feels a bit like a failure of advertising :) ).
I may have spent far, far too much time down the old-fashioned murder mystery rabbit hole when my kids were little, absorbing Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh, but this didn't really seem to resemble a murder mystery as I'd recognize it. A pleasant enough medieval story, but the murder seemed a bit incidental (and yes, I realize it does sound a bit weird to complain about a story being insufficiently murder-ey, but it feels a bit like a failure of advertising :) ).
Inspired to read this by the latest episode of Radicals In Conversation: plutopress.podbean.com/e/beyond-the-ballot-box-on-the-far-right-with-mike-wendling/
'An invaluable guide to the forces of American conspiracy theory that are currently bending our world out of shape' Gabriel …
12th-century Shrewsbury monks go to Wales to recover a 7th-century saint’s relics, and meet opposition from the relics’ keepers. Then …
