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#BooksOf2026 Book number 81

Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan

A slim, sun-soaked story of a teenage girl scheming her way through a French Riviera summer, sharp, cynical and surprisingly modern for a novel written in the 1950s.

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Number 33
The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
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#Booksof2026 61 - Oh No It Isn't by @paulcornell.bsky.social
I don't think I've re-read this since it was published in 1997
It does a reasonable job of setting up Prof. Bernice Summerfield post Doctor Who, but some bits (Summerfield lusting after a teenage student) haven't aged well
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#Booksof2026 60 - Men of Intelligence by Sir Kenneth Strong

A slightly quirky book from the 1970s by the first Director General of Intelligence at the Ministry of Defence. Interesting reflections on what military intelligence is (and isn't) and how it can be used.

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Number 32
Time Travel for Beginners - Jaclyn Moriarty
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#Booksof2026 59 - The White Rose of Stalingrad by Bill Yenne

An interesting biography of Lidiya Litvyak, the Soviet WW2 fighter pilot, but it is a bit baggy in parts.
Might have worked better with a wider scope covering the entire Soviet female fighter pilot force.

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#BooksOf2026 Book number 79

The Illuminati Ball by cynthia von buhler

the book that got my reading mojo back after a shaky few weeks. A strange, gorgeous graphic novel inspired by a real 1972 Rothschild masquerade, all secret societies, gene spliced hybrids and stained glass style art.
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20th Glad to have finally got around to reading Sudhir Hazareesingh’s “Black Spartacus”, a compendious biography of the brilliant, complex, humane and hubristic revolutionary, Toussaint Louverture, a man who still has much to teach us about the injustices of the modern world. #BooksOf2026