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1 author picked Queen Camilla as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Quite simply, because it’s hilarious – and so very prescient in envisaging, many years before the reality, how various members of the British royal family might turn out.

The premise is that Queen Elizabeth and her nearest and dearest have been consigned to an exclusion zone in republican Britain, along with other work-shy, dissolute, and villainous spongers.

Given the title, it is no spoiler to say that Camilla does indeed become queen, with hierarchal ramifications – the different directions followed by Harry and William, for instance, are amusingly predictive of our current reality.

All the while, there are the dogs…

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These Blue Mountains by Sarah Loudin Thomas,

A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.

German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…

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