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Nov 23, 20221 min read
1031. T. L. Mogford - The Plant Hunter
I thought this was a bit silly, although I learned things I didn’t know from it. Like the existence of plant hunters in Victorian...
Apr 27, 20201 min read
770. Holly Watt - To The Lions
Paddy recommended this, having heard the author on Women’s Hour. Although it has been widely praised, I thought it was rubbish, well that...
Jul 29, 20161 min read
421. Chris Cleave - Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
Another library book via P. I am not reading at all fluently at the moment; this was quite a good book but I didn’t really enjoy it at...
Aug 29, 20151 min read
333. Kate Atkinson - A God In Ruins
As it is a library book, due back 5 September, I thought worth another read. It is actually quite an old fashioned novel, reminded me at...
May 25, 20151 min read
305. Lionel Davidson - Kolymsky Heights
Despite the endorsement by Philip Pullman (who I thought may have written the first chapters), this was complete rubbish. Not much more...
Apr 4, 20141 min read
194. Olivia Manning - Friends & Heroes
Volume three of the above. They are now all in Athens, although only briefly as the Germans invade toward the end, and they flee on a...
Apr 1, 20141 min read
193. Olivia Manning - The Spoilt City
Volume two of the above. Rumania rather passively allows itself to be occupied by the Germans because there is no political will there,...
Mar 29, 20141 min read
192. Olivia Manning - The Great Fortune
Not entirely sure whether volume one of 'The Balkan Trilogy' counts as a book, but volume two (no.193 below) certainly re-introduces the...
Jan 1, 20131 min read
69. John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
Inspired by the chase around Scotland in no.68 ( and struggling a bit with no.70) I Kindled this for nothing. Never read it or any other...