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Sep 25, 20141 min read
249. Nick Davies - Hack Attack
This is the book by the Guardian journalist about the phone hacking at the News of the World. It is also (as part and parcel of the...
Aug 7, 20141 min read
232. Lawrence Durrell - Clea
The last of the Alexandria quartet and also the last book on my list for 2014. I enjoyed this enormously; it was dense and difficult but...
Jun 11, 20141 min read
217. Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit
One of the summer plans! Thought I’d take (to Spain) a Dickens that I didn’t know at all, never televised, so no baggage. Not sure what...
Dec 30, 20131 min read
172. Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Idiot
This was a challenge; I can’t say I enjoyed it at all. Seemed to be very unstructured and unfocussed; I couldn’t work up any enthusiasm...
Dec 15, 20131 min read
170. Colin Dexter - Death Is Now My Neighbour
Haven’t read a Morse book for years. Dexter does write vigorous, wordy as you would expect, prose, and it is a fast page-turner of a...
Feb 9, 20131 min read
77. Bruce Duffy - The World As I Found It
A huge book, mainly I guess a fictionalised (although this seems controversial among the critics) biography of Wittgenstein. Pretty...
Dec 3, 20121 min read
62. Val McDermid - Killing The Shadows
I must have read this before in Crete (the bookmark gave it away) but could remember nothing about it. About a serial killer who targets...
Aug 10, 20121 min read
32. Charles Dickens - A Tale Of Two Cities
I normally hate Dickens and bought this on my Kindle just to show my dad that you can get an out of copyright book for free. Thought I...