When this posting first appeared, I threatened to bring it to the top every so often in the hope of concentrating minds and getting at least some Salut! readers to buy their Amazon-marketed products here.
In the months that followed, I have done no such thing. But while hoping to restore normal service soon, I will settle for now for giving the item a fresh top-of-the-pile outing to cover me until my hand has recovered from a recent op.
To recap, Salut! costs more in incidental expenses to run than it has ever earned. If its author's time has any value, the profit and loss account begins to look sad indeed.
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I am not the world's fastest of book-readers (and am even slower when it comes to writing them), but have a few titles from this year that I am happy to recommend:
* Philip Delves Broughton
Bel Ombra, a flawed but beautifully written and captivating account of the war years as experienced by inhabitants and occupying Nazi forces on Porquerolles, one of the lovely islands lying in the Med just off Toulon
* Katharine McMahon
The Crimson Rooms
In London in the 1920s, a nation struggles to meet the challenges of life after war, men trying to rebuild broken lives, women demanding professional equality. McMahon's novel combines astute observation of the period with a clever approach to the whodunnit.
* Michael Simkins
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Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education: Simkins, actor and writer, broadly fails in his mission to convince us he is a bumbling know-nothing lost in a foreign country, but recounts with humour and charm his journeys around France. It is easy to skip the bits you know or suspect won't appeal, but some encounters and experiences are a delight. He's insane and wrong in his loathing for andouillettes, for example, but it still makes for an entertaining story
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