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Nov 24, 20211 min read
917. Sasha Swire - Diary Of An MP's Wife
Didn’t really know what to make of this. Far too long; should have been edited down to c300 pages rather than 500. Sasha Swire is the...
Jan 6, 20181 min read
565. William Boyd - Any Human Heart
Still not certain whether I have read this before. The central figure, Logan Mountstewart, sounds very familiar, but I had no memory of...
Jan 2, 20181 min read
564. Shaun Bythell - The Diary Of A Bookseller
Dan gave this to Paddy for Xmas. The author is a 2nd hand bookseller in Wigtown, a small Scottish town in Galloway, not far from...
Jun 14, 20171 min read
498. John Lewis-Stempel - The Wild Life
A book about living off the land for a year. The author decided to live entirely off natural produce (animals he could kill, stuff...
Jun 3, 20171 min read
492. John Lewis-Stempel - The Running Hare
One of P’s – I had never heard of the author (nor had she) who is younger than me, a farmer who also writes books about soldiers’s...
Sep 3, 20141 min read
240. Andy Miller - The Year Of Reading Dangerously
This was a bit of a challenge as it is similar to this site. A book about the challenge he set himself to read 50 books, chosen I am not...