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Jun 24, 20231 min read
1075. Dorothy B Hughes - The Expendable Man
Published in the mid -1950s, this is very different. Re-published by a UK imprint called Persephone Books (to which P subscribes) it is...
Aug 5, 20221 min read
1002. John Wyndham - The Midwich Cuckoos
This was on TV recently, a modern adaptation of a book written in the 1950s, so I thought I would read the book. The adaptation changes...
Apr 10, 20221 min read
966. Lawrence Durrell - White Eagles Over Serbia
I love the Alexandria Quartet, but this is a fairly lightweight thriller set in communist-occupied Serbia in the 1950’s. The central...
Mar 6, 20221 min read
953. Brian Moore - The Lonely Passion Of Judith Hearne
This is a wonderful book. Passion in the title has the ambiguity of sexual and religious passion. Judith Hearne, a lonely spinster in...
Sep 26, 20211 min read
898. Philip Kerr - Prussian Blue
I think I may have read one of his before – a trilogy called 'Berlin Noir', many years ago. This was long and ponderous at times, but a...
Feb 17, 20151 min read
283. Elizabeth Jane Howard - All Change
The final book in the quintet; I wouldn’t have read this straightaway but had to spend four hours in the hospital waiting room yesterday...
Oct 5, 20131 min read
151. Cynthia Ozick - Foreign Bodies
A quick pre-holiday read from the library. Not particularly good — a Jewish post WW2 variant on Henry James themes. I think you could say...
Apr 13, 20121 min read
3. Graham Greene - The Quiet American
Found this surprisingly hard to get into, being a big fan, but it is excellent. The narrator is a seedy English journalist in Vietnam in...