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Mar 30, 20231 min read
1054. RJ Ellory - A Quiet Belief In Angel
I love this book, although the plot has its incoherences. A very lyrical bildungsroman, but peppered with a series of very gruesome...
Nov 24, 20201 min read
829. Evie Wyld - All The Birds, Singing
A wonderful book, read it before (177 & 8) and still difficult. So, just to help out any other baffled reader, the even numbered chapters...
Sep 18, 20171 min read
524. Jane Harper - The Dry
A BBC book of the week I think not long before we went away. Very good Aussie (although I think JH is English) crime thriller. Set in a...
Jul 12, 20171 min read
507. Fiona Melrose - Midwinter
Another of P’s from the library. Totally different from 506 - if that was a quasi 18th century novel about society, this was very 20th...
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...
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...
Feb 5, 20141 min read
181. Patrick White - The Tree Of Man
Extraordinary. Long and difficult (although ultimately very simple) book, simply about human life. Very un-glorified. The characters are...