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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...
Dec 22, 20141 min read
271. Émile Zola - Germinal
Possibly the best book I have read this year. Zola completely turns 19th century fiction on its head and writes a book in which the...
Aug 9, 20141 min read
233. Sebastian Faulks - The Girl At The Lion d'Or
Beautifully written, really quite a simple love story, except not really. A compressed version of 'Birdsong', I had forgotten how much of...
Mar 16, 20141 min read
188. Honoré de Balzac - A Harlot High And Low
This is a long and at times difficult book — quite different from no.187 in its breadth and a huge range of characters. Very difficult at...
Jul 30, 20131 min read
132. Salley Vickers - The Cleaner Of Chartres
Paddy recommended this and I read a lot of it probably not in a great mood. About an orphan girl, and a goof cast of Gallic characters in...