The Game Is a Footnote
Written by Vicki Delany
Narrated by Kim Hicks
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Vicki Delany
Vicki Delany is one of Canada’s most prolific and varied crime writers and a national bestseller in the United States. She has written more than 30 books: from clever cozies to Gothic thrillers, gritty police procedurals to historical fiction and seven novellas in the Rapid Reads line. She writes the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series, the Year Round Christmas mysteries and under the pen name of Eva Gates, the Lighthouse Library series. Vicki is the past president of Crime Writers of Canada. Her work has been nominated for the Derringer, Bony Blithe, Golden Oak, and Arthur Ellis Awards. She lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
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MY ancestral home—white columns, a veranda that stretched the width of the front, a row of rocking chairs —was knocked down. The new owners built a bigger and better house. They didn’t put the new house in the exact same spot, but ‘sited’ it in the m
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5 min readLodging with Mozart (and Shelley, Franklin and Byron) BBC History MagazineArticle
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7 min readEnglish Home part XII, 1939–2022 Country LifeArticle
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The Life of GENTLEMAN JACK
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8 min readSUMMER Reading SPECIAL The Australian Women's WeeklyArticle
SUMMER Reading SPECIAL
Dec 28, 2022
In last year’s Booker Prize shortlisted Oh William! we found narrator Lucy Barton reconnecting with her first husband, William, following the death of her second husband. In this sequel COVID has hit New York and William takes control. As a scientist
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5 min readDear Paul Family Tree UKArticle
Dear Paul
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6 min readOlive Schreiner: Charlotte Brontë of South Africa, 19th-Century Celebrity Literary HubArticle
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13 min readThey Were One-offs Country LifeArticle
They Were One-offs
Apr 6, 2022
HOW I wish I’d written this book! Matthew Kelly celebrates four women whose work created the organisations and attitudes to conservation we take for granted today. Two are well known, two are not; all their stories enrich us. The well-known two are O
7 min readStory Of A Street History ScotlandArticle
Story Of A Street
Oct 9, 2021
8 min readThe King Who Was A Fool For Love Country LifeArticle
The King Who Was A Fool For Love
Sep 6, 2023
6 min readDear Paul Family Tree UKArticle
Dear Paul
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10 min readDear Paul Family Tree UKArticle
Dear Paul
Sep 9, 2022
In August we heard about the delightfully-named Morwood Windle, who had the rather unsavoury occupation of ‘pig killer’. Although probably not seen as a desirable occupation nowadays, put into context, this occupation would have been more common in 1
11 min readNANDOR FODOR & THE TALKING MONGOOSE Fortean TimesArticle
NANDOR FODOR & THE TALKING MONGOOSE
Sep 7, 2023
Throughout the 1930s, the world’s newspapers were full of incredible stories about Gef, a ‘talking mongoose’ or ‘man-weasel’ who had allegedly appeared in the home of a peculiar family living in a somewhat dilapidated Isle of Man farmhouse. Gef was s
11 min readLetters Who Do You Think You Are?Article
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6 min read‘Walter Refused To Doff His Cap’ Who Do You Think You Are?Article
‘Walter Refused To Doff His Cap’
Aug 24, 2021
HELEN PARKERDRABBLE is a genealogist, author and former counsellor living in Swindon, Wiltshire Helen Parker-Drabble was a child when she was first told of her grandfather’s refusal to doff his cap to the Duke of Bedford’s estate manager. “Walter Pa
2 min readA MYTHIC revival Old House JournalArticle
A MYTHIC revival
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3 min readMore Than Gardening’s “Bad Girl” DIVAArticle
More Than Gardening’s “Bad Girl”
Apr 28, 2023
Watching Gardeners’ World on TV, my attention was hooked when garden historian Advolly Richmond described “gardening’s bad girl”. An award-winning Edwardian gardener, it’s claimed Ellen Willmott booby-trapped her rarest plants, sabotaged her rivals’
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Reviews for The Game Is a Footnote
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- LaKeisha BudgesRating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The stories were great without any language or sex scenes.