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1018. Ian McEwan - Machines Like Me
About a man Charlie, his lover Miranda, and a synthetic man, Adam, whom Charlie has bought. Set in an alternative 1980’s when Thatcher is...
Oct 5, 20221 min read


904. Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain
I thought this was brilliant and well-deserving of the Booker prize it won in 2020. A very grim novel set in Glasgow in the 1980s. The...
Oct 12, 20211 min read


400. Mike Brearley - Phoenix From The Ashes
Another one from the attic, I don’t know why as there is lots of space in cricket books downstairs. This is about Botham’s Ashes in 1981....
May 16, 20161 min read