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Sep 21, 20221 min read
1014. Mick Herron - Spook Street
So nice to read a book with a coherent narrative plot, after struggling with Joyce. Have read this before, it is the one where River goes...
Dec 5, 20151 min read
359. Karl Ove Knausgaard - A Death In The Family
I hated this at first; to say that Zola is prolix is unjust in the context of Knausgaard. The first 200 pages seemed to be a tedious...
Sep 21, 20121 min read
44. R.J. Ellory - City Of Lies
Not one of his best, in fact disappointing. A guy who thought his father was dead finds out that he is a New York hoodlum. Lots of people...
Sep 8, 20121 min read
39. Patrick Gale - A Perfectly Good Man
Another brilliant book. An otherworldly priest in Cornwall (it links explicitly to no.37 above), not quite otherworldly enough to avoid...