A very successful few months
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I have so many unread books already in the house and so many books that I want to read that it can be rather irksome when a book group choice is something you have already read, and you need to read it again. (Although not as irksome as when it turns out to be something you have already read but…
One of my Christmas presents was a slim volume called Queen Macbeth, written by Val McDermid, published in 2024. In the author’s notes at the beginning, she says that we know very little about the real Macbeth, or Macbethad, and that Shakespeare's play bears no relation to the few facts we do know. She felt this gave her the freedom…