Blaze of Glory, Michael Pryor. Aubrey Fitzwilliam is the son of an ex-prime minister, brilliant at magic, an excellent actor, attractive, intelligent, good at sports (in the first XI with a distinctive late cut) and a practised code-breaker. In his spare time, he disguises himself as Tommy Sparks, a petty thief with an irritating mockney accent, ( Read more... )

Everything else I read in December that I haven’t mentioned earlier. I did a lot of travelling this month, which means a lot of reading, but this is still a little startling. Still haven't mentioned Paul Park's A Princess of Roumania, but I have The Tourmaline to read, and will get to it then.

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