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May 17, 20141 min read
210. Bruce Chatwin - Utz
Didn’t want to overdo the Greene while we were stuck in Bristol, so borrowed a couple more, which I haven’t read yet. Never read any...
Jan 11, 20141 min read
176. Albert Camus - The Outsider
Don’t know what prompted me to re-read this. It is very short, and I wasn’t feeling well when I read it and wrote the above. It is...
Nov 17, 20131 min read
164. Andrea Camilleri - The Dance Of The Seagull
Inspector Montalbano populates BBC4 Saturday evenings in the gaps between big, dark Scandinavian thrillers (or currently Borgen, which is...
Oct 3, 20131 min read
150. Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
I think this is perhaps the first time I have read this book ‘properly’ if that is an appropriate adverb. General Sternwood has a...
Apr 19, 20121 min read
4. John Le Carré - A Small Town In Germany
Read this before, probably about 30 years ago! Set in Bonn in the late '60s, the central figure (although he never appears) is a man who...