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Colin’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Colin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Colin Falconer
Goodreads Author
Born
London, The United Kingdom
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Ken Follett; Wilbur Smith.
Member Since
March 2011
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/httpscolinfalconerbookscom
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Silk Road
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2000
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38 editions
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Harem
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1992
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53 editions
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The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane
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2017
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11 editions
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When We Were Gods
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1999
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36 editions
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Stigmata
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2004
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24 editions
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Isabella: Braveheart of France
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2013
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11 editions
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Lord of the Atlas
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2021
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9 editions
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Ends of the Earth
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2023
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4 editions
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Venom
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1990
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17 editions
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Fever Coast
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2022
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5 editions
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Valerius's Journey: Ends of the Earth
The journey made by Valerius from far western China to Rome was around 25,000km and took him almost two years. For those readers who are interested, I’ve marked it on an ancient map.
Researching this journey made Ends of the Earth the most challenging novel I've ever written. The Roman Empire and the events of 53 to 44 BC are well documented. So is the battle of Carrhae, in what is now southeastern
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Colin’s Recent Updates
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| Richly imagined saga spanning many generations, the novel paints an intricate and enthralling story of life in Kerala from 1900 until the seventies. | |
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Colin Falconer
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Thanks Steve. I have mainly written stories set in the classical, medieval and modern periods. I love shows like Vikings, Barbarians and The Last Kingdom but haven’t written about those periods myself yet. I would do if I found a story both gripping
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| Even if you’re not an Arsenal fan, this book is addictive reading and very funny. | |
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| Most people know him for his Flashman books, but this war memoir is unputdownable. Funny and harrowing by turns. Brilliant. | |
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| Set in New York in the 1930's, I loved this book for its character and dialogue. It's not adventure. It's poignant, witty and fascinating. ...more | |
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| History that reads like a thriller. One man 's quest to exact revenge on behalf of an entire nation. Hard to put down. ...more | |
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| This wonderful book is a diary that Fanny Parkes kept of her 25 years travelling around India. Edited by the renowned William Dalrymple, it is a unique insight into life in colonial India from an amazing woman born well before her time. Loved it. | |
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“We make such plans for our lives, she thinks, and this is the way they turn out, nothing like what we imagine.”
― Isabella: Braveheart of France
― Isabella: Braveheart of France
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“They found him in the cloister, lying on his back with ice in his beard. He was half conscious, muttering about a Templar knight, a secret commission from the Pope, and a beautiful woman on a white pony.”
― Silk Road
― Silk Road
“His fellow monks carried him back to his cell and laid him on the hard cot that had been his bed for the last twenty years. He was an old man now and there was nothing to be done. His eyes had the cold sheen of death. A brother went to fetch the abbot so that the old fellow might make his last confession.”
― Silk Road
― Silk Road
“The head had been impaled on a railing outside the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand in the early hours of a cold November morning. There was a fine dusting of frost on the corpse’s hair and eyelids which gave it a festive touch.”
― Cry Justice
― Cry Justice
“Kitty O’Kane dreamed of a kind husband and a just life; what she had was haddock water for supper and a dribble of her own blood, seen at close quarters, on the toe of her father’s scuffed boot.”
― The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane
― The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane
“The dead man looked disconsolate. Reasonably so, in the circumstances, Charlie thought.”
― Cry Justice
― Cry Justice
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