Books by Jane Johnson
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review 1: I searched high and low to find this her third book set in Morocco. There were some brilliant moments, and some that really pulled me into the time and the desert. Maybe it is was just me, but still think her best was the Tenth Gift. Maybe this one even though I found it good,...
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review 1: Well, this was a pretty good yarn, and sometimes (in the midst of more challenging, more literary novels) that’s just what the doctor ordered. Also, I was coming back from a week in the Middle East (Oman) and saw this at the airport in Qatar and felt I could do with a story that ...
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review 1: Alys Swann is taken captive on her way to meet her future fiancé in England, and finds herself a slave to the sultan of Morocco. Nus-Nus, the sultan’s scribe, must convince Miss Swann to convert to Islam and become one of the sultan’s many wives, else he will be put to death alon...
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review 1: I really enjoyed "The Tenth Gift," which is an engrossing historical tale told in straightforward, engaging prose (probably because Johnson was previously an editor). I found myself drawn into the two parallel narratives with equal enthusiasm - in fact, I may have found the moder...
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review 1: Unexpectedly a beautiful read and an interesting one at that. picking this book up at a bargain sale, I wasn't too keen on starting it. But it pleasantly surprised me. with the clever writing style and a carefully set out tale, the salt road is one to treasure. I had been craving...
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review 1: In ‘The Tenth Gift’ Jane Johnson spins a story around an extraordinary piece of history:In 1625 corsairs from North Africa sailed into Mount’s Bay, they entered a church and they took sixty men, women and children, to be sold as slaves.That church might have been St Mary’s in Pen...
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review 1: Don't let the sub-title of Crossed Bones - 'the all-true adventures and most unlikely romance of a pirate slave girl - put you off this wonderful piece of historical fiction. There’s not a ripped bodice or heaving bosom anywhere - well, apart from on the cover. Instead, what yo...
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review 1: I was so excited to be back in Morocco with Jane Johnson, and this book didn't disappoint. I am really loving her work, and it is because you can actually hear the call to prayers, smell the spices and aromatics, feel the heat of the desert and know you have been transported. I...