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Feb 6, 20151 min read
281. Elizabeth Jane Howard - Confusion
Book 3 which takes us from 1942 to the end of the war. Lots of events as the girls grow up and Louise gets married to a dreadful man,...
Jan 31, 20151 min read
279. Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Light Years
Never read this, or any of her books, before. Huge cast of characters, introduced in short ensemble sketches, so very difficult to...
Jan 19, 20151 min read
277. Maggie Shipstead - Seating Arrangements
This was very good, especially given that the author is in her early 30’s. About a wedding party on an island I think off New England,...
Dec 28, 20141 min read
272. Émile Zola - Earth
The only other Zola book in the house, although I have since invested something like £1.69 in Amazon to buy the complete works for my...
Jun 18, 20141 min read
222. Thomas Mann - BuddenBrooks
If I have read Thomas Mann before, it was 'Death in Venice' 40 years ago. This, especially the first half, was a wonderfully stately...
Nov 9, 20131 min read
161. Kate Furnivall - Shadows Of The Nile
A swop with Paddy for no.159. Very different and hard to place genre-wise. Part historical romance, part derring-do adventure, part...
Oct 21, 20131 min read
157. Graham Greene - Travels With My Aunt
Spent my Waterstones birthday token from Dan on a couple of books. I had never, except by name, heard of this but the blurb on the back...
Aug 30, 20131 min read
139. Denise Mina - Resolution
The third and best of the Garnethill trilogy, I have said to Paddy good enough to read as a stand alone. Everything does get resolved in...
Jun 8, 20131 min read
114. Peter Robinson - Bad Boy
Brilliant. Robinson is a bit like a velvet coat; you slip into his prose and feel immediately comfortable with the nuances. I think I...
May 22, 20131 min read
106. Jeannie Faulkner Barber - Taste Of Fire
Mistook "good quality crime" on some website for Mills & Boon. Complete tat. Get this on Amazon
Apr 4, 20131 min read
94. Steven Jacobi - Going Naked Is The Best Disguise
Don't know why I read this as it is not very good. Probably avoiding another Tolstoy, already read detective novel and/or spending money...
Feb 24, 20131 min read
81. Arnaldur Indridason - Hypothermia
I am hooked on these now. Found this one hard to get into initially (no murder, just a clear cut suicide) but so cleverly done that you...
Feb 9, 20131 min read
77. Bruce Duffy - The World As I Found It
A huge book, mainly I guess a fictionalised (although this seems controversial among the critics) biography of Wittgenstein. Pretty...
Aug 31, 20121 min read
37. Patrick Gale - Notes From An Exhibition
Wonderful. A story about a Canadian painter who comes to live in Penzance with her English partner and their four children; collectively...