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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...
Oct 26, 20231 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...
Aug 4, 20221 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...
Jun 25, 20181 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...
Apr 6, 20151 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...
Nov 15, 20141 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...
Jul 28, 20131 min read