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Oct 7, 20221 min read
1019. Audrey MaGee - The Colony
Book of the year, so worth a re-read. Beautifully written, with sentences that bounce into quasi-verse and others that begin with one...
Jul 14, 20221 min read
996. Yangsze Choo - The Night Tiger
Very good, although quite difficult at times. The story of two teenagers, set in Colonial Malaya in the 1930s. The teenagers are both...
Aug 6, 20151 min read
326. Richard Flanagan - Wanting
Saw a very good program on the TV about him and thought I would start off, still post Zola, with something easier than 'The Narrow Road...
Apr 23, 20141 min read
201. William Boyd - A Good Man In Africa
I didn’t enjoy this as much as | expected, having read it years ago and knowing roughly what to expect (comic British colonial in,...
Apr 27, 20121 min read
6. Janice Y.K. Lee - The Piano Teacher
I thought this was a wonderful book, not unlike Greene, but written by a woman. Set in wartime and post-war Hong Kong, it is about...