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Oct 26, 20231 min read
1100. Adele Parks - Just Between Us
A library book from P. I found this difficult to follow until, after finishing, I discovered in the author’s afterword, that it is part...
Aug 3, 20221 min read
1001. Janice Hallett - The Appeal
This, her first book, was brilliant but far too long I thought. The first three quarters is largely a set of email exchanges between...
Jun 24, 20181 min read
605. John Williams - Stoner
Quite a ‘quiet’ book, about the fictional life of an academic who abandons agricultural training (parents being farmers) for literature...
Apr 5, 20151 min read
295. Katharine Norbury - The Fish Ladder
I read the first half of this thinking it was a novel with a rather slow start. It is difficult to say what sort of book it is – lots of...
Nov 15, 20141 min read
261. Paul Merton - Only When I Laugh
Merton is a very funny man, but not a great writer; the prose is pretty plodding, and the intersected jokes are mainly visual. I didn’t...
Jul 27, 20131 min read
131. Iain Banks - The Quarry
Never read any before and sadly the guy died of cancer earlier this year. The central character in this book is suffering and suffers the...