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Geoff’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Geoff’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Geoff Boxell
Goodreads Author
Born
in London, The United Kingdom
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Member Since
December 2015
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Just for Kicks: A Rocker's Tale of London in the 60s
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1998
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2 editions
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If You Go Down in the Woods
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2015
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2 editions
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The Dark Daring Deeds of Geffrey ðe Wulf
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2015
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Woden's Wolf
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1998
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5 editions
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Awfully Artful Arthur or should that be Clever Cunning Cerdic?
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Big Bold Beowulf
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2015
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Hard Hero Hengest
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2015
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Grimm Tales: (almost) true stories about Beowulf and Hengest and King Arthur
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It's All a Bit Complicated: Family Tales of Boxell-Holt-Connell-Bunce Families from Battersea & Earlsfield
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Geoff’s Recent Updates
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| First I must confess that I am unsure why I bought this book: it may be that I confused it with the whale road stories of Robert Low. I know it was just after Christmas 2024 and I was on a book buying spree - I may have been a bit muzzy from Christma ...more | |
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| In my review of the previous saga of Hasting the Avenger I complained about the 2 years between the books being published. This time it is three years since I read the previous book but, looking at the date of other's reviews, that is my fault and no ...more | |
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| This is as much the tale of Lady Hawise ferch Owain ap Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn as it is of the aging Sir Gerald Warbow as she struggles to regain the land she inherited from the grip of her rapacious uncles. The way the book ends there may yet be a 10 ...more | |
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Well it starts with an attempted murder then settles down to explore King Alfred's educational and civil reforms. Things hot up again when yet another Viking threat arrives in the form of Haesten and a triple thrust at Wessex. Alfred is growing old (w ...more |
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Steven McKay
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Geoff Boxell's
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Hi Geoff, I'm really glad you liked those books enough to want a sequel! Unfortunately, the publisher never asked me to write more and I've moved on now. I did buy some books to research Edward and Aethelflaed with the intention of writing a fourth n
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This is the second book in Steven A. McKay’s trilogy on King Æfrǣd of Wessex following on from “The Heathen Hoard”. Having won enough victories against the Danes, King Æfrǣd, thought, after one final battle, that there would now be a period of peace a ...more |
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| The book should, I think be 5 stars but I had problems following the discussion a lot of the time. I did biology at Senior School as one of my O Level GCEs but that was 1963 and I have not studied it since and things have moved a long way in the stud ...more | |
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Using the Julius Work Calendar as its skeleton, the book fleshes out just what life in England in the year 1000 was like, and it does so in a style that is easy to read and thoroughly enjoyable. I bought and read the book originally in 2000 and found ...more |
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Money is tight, so another re-read (I have about 2.5k books, so plenty of selection). This book is a fast fun read with various twist to it. I read it in two days despite having to do work in the garden both days and watch motorcycle speedway with the ...more |
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