Thank you for those recs; they all sound excellent. It's great finding new authors I like. [rubs hands]
I know a lot of books are Americanised (e.g. Harry Potter), but the writing and dialogue in this one were aimed at fairly educated readers (and were wonderfully British otherwise) so that was rather odd. If people knew what an omnibus was, they'd surely be able to handle a few "got"s. In some cases, "received" would also have done as well which would have got (sorry) around the problem. American spelling doesn't bother me at all so I didn't even notice that.
OK, just checked the library catalogue and they have: - Lost things - Mighty good road - Point of knives (the only "point" one
Looks like I'll have to buy the others on Kindle, and yay, it looks like they have pretty everything including some SG1 and Star Trek. All right!
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Date: 2014-02-27 08:00 am (UTC)I know a lot of books are Americanised (e.g. Harry Potter), but the writing and dialogue in this one were aimed at fairly educated readers (and were wonderfully British otherwise) so that was rather odd. If people knew what an omnibus was, they'd surely be able to handle a few "got"s. In some cases, "received" would also have done as well which would have got (sorry) around the problem. American spelling doesn't bother me at all so I didn't even notice that.
OK, just checked the library catalogue and they have:
- Lost things
- Mighty good road
- Point of knives (the only "point" one
Looks like I'll have to buy the others on Kindle, and yay, it looks like they have pretty everything including some SG1 and Star Trek. All right!