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Jan 7, 20231 min read
1040. Sean Lusk - The 2nd Sight Of Zachary Cloudesly
This is very good and a lot better than no.1039. Set in the late 18th century in London, Istanbul, and elsewhere, it involves a...
Oct 1, 20211 min read
901. Graham Norton - Home Stretch
I am inclined to an aversion for celebrity authors, but this is extremely good, and I’ll read his others. The plot begins with a young...
Jun 25, 20211 min read
872. William Boyd - Trio
I enjoyed this, but maybe three separate stories. Set mainly in Brighton in 1968, where a film is being made. The three are a fading...
Jun 14, 20211 min read
868. Patrick Gale - Take Nothing With You
Embarrassingly, I have read this before but had (have) no memory of this until I said to P. ‘If I was still on speaking terms with [a...
Oct 20, 20181 min read
634. Patrick Gale - Take Nothing With You
The perfect book for gay male cellists. Much as I enjoyed this, it did strike me (unless I am missing something) that this was really two...
Nov 1, 20151 min read
350. Patrick Gale - A Place Called Winter
Fond though I am of Patrick Gale, I didn’t like this much; too much gay proselytising, although he explains the genesis of the book (a...
May 9, 20151 min read
301. Maria McCann - As Meat Loves Salt
This is totally different; a kind of 17th century 'Brokeback Mountain'. It is huge in scope, covering bloody bits of the civil war which...
Jan 4, 20151 min read
275. Clare Balding - Walking Home
I enjoyed this – don’t normally like books by celebrities but Clare Balding has had to work out how to be a gay upper class horsey girl,...
Oct 25, 20131 min read
158. Jake Arnott - Johnny Come Home
Read this as an interlude between my two new books, no.157 & no.159. It is quite good — can’t really make my mind up about Jake Arnott,...
Jun 20, 20131 min read
121. Peter Robinson - All The Colours Of Darkness
Wanted to re-read this as it precedes no.114 above and i had forgotten bits of the plot, which is Othello transposed into a gay...
Nov 8, 20121 min read
53. Alan Hollinghurst - The Stranger's Child
Never read any of his before. Enjoyed it but it was long. Why are all the characters (nearly all-male) gay? Even the central female...