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M.J. Carter

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in London, The United Kingdom

May 30

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Biography, History, Mystery

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M J Carter, biographer, historian and thriller writer, was educated at St. Paul's Girls' School and Exeter College, Oxford. She worked as a publisher and journalist before beginning research on her biography of Anthony Blunt in 1994. She lives in London with her husband and two sons. Anthony Blunt: His lives (2001), her first book, won the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Orwell Prize, and was shortlisted for many other prizes, including the Guardian First Book Award and the Whitbread Biography Award. In the US it was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the seven best books of 2002. Her second book, The Three Emperors (US title, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm), was published in 2009 and was shortlisted for the LA Time ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 8,839 ratings · 1,382 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Strangler Vine (The Blake and Avery Mystery Series, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 5,164 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Infidel Stain (Avery & Blake #2) 3.78 avg rating — 1,799 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil's Feast (Avery & Blake, #3) 3.77 avg rating — 1,024 ratings — published 2016 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Business Economics: Concepts and cases by M.S. Greenwood, M.J. Carter (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by M.J. Carter

Avery & Blake (3 books)
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“For mile after mile the strangler vines choked the sal trees, one grey trunk encircling another, until the whole jungle resembled some terrible tangled knot in which it was impossible to tell murderer from victim.”
― M.J. Carter, The Strangler Vine

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“For decades, chalk and alum have been added to bread, and burnt corn and peas ground up to make coffee. Vinegar is rendered sharper by the addition of sulphuric acid, arrowroot is added to milk to thicken it, mustard is eked out with flour, strychnine is added to beer for bitterness and green vitriol to encourage a foaming head. And these are but the harmless manipulations.”
― M.J. Carter, The Devil's Feast

tags: alum, educational-fiction, poison, poisoning, poisons, strychnine, thomas-wakley, vitriol

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“Wilhelm manifested many symptoms of “narcissistic personality disorder”: arrogance, grandiose self-importance, a mammoth sense of entitlement, fantasies about unlimited success and power; a belief in his own uniqueness and brilliance; a need for endless admiration and reinforcement and a hatred of criticism; proneness to envy; a tendency to regard other people as purely instrumental—in terms of what they could do for him, along with a dispiriting lack of empathy.”
― M.J. Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I

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Which book would you like to read for our November 15 - January 15 European Royalty group read?

The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir

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The Last Queen by C.W. Gortner

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Lady of the English by Elizabeth Chadwick

10 votes, 19.2%

Reign of Madness by Lynn Cullen

7 votes, 13.5%

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I by Miranda Carter

6 votes, 11.5%

Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott

3 votes, 5.8%

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