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May 5, 20221 min read
972. Elif Shafak - The Island Of Missing Trees
This is a wonderful book. Set mainly in Cyprus in the mid-1970s when the country was ripped apart by the Greek/Cypriot civil war, it...
Dec 9, 20151 min read
360. Victoria Hislop - The Sunrise
I don’t think this is a very good book, although as a quasi-historical novel about a recent bit of Cypriot history that I had pretty well...
May 9, 20151 min read
301. Maria McCann - As Meat Loves Salt
This is totally different; a kind of 17th century 'Brokeback Mountain'. It is huge in scope, covering bloody bits of the civil war which...
May 16, 20141 min read
208. Graham Greene - The Confidential Agent
Borrowed this from my father’s library, and was surprised to find I had read it before (in fact, we have a very ancient, dropped in the...
Apr 19, 20131 min read
100. Graham Greene - The Confidential Agent
And no.100! (I did try to read 'Mr Sammler's Planet' by Saul Bellow after no.99, but gave up in the garden this morning. Too prosaic, and...
Nov 18, 20121 min read
57. William Boyd - Brazzaville Beach
Had read this before, but having enjoyed Boyd recently, thought I would give it another try. It is readable, but one of those books I...