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Apr 17, 20221 min read
968. Elif Shafak - The Architect's Apprentice
This was quite hard work, but I ended up enjoying it, as the rather disparate plot elements were pulled together in the last 50 pages....
Apr 8, 20191 min read
674. Anita Anand - The Patient Assassin
A book by an Indian BBC presenter about an Indian guy who murdered in 1940 the British colonial administrator responsible for the...
Sep 19, 20161 min read
430. Paul Scott - Staying On
The sequel to 'The Raj Quartet', and very different in lots of ways. I suppose essentially a tragi-comedy, about Tusker and Lucy Smalley,...
Sep 16, 20161 min read
429. Paul Scott - A Division Of The Spoils
These are big long books and it has taken a week to read each one. Guy Perron (Charles Dance on the TV) finally appears in this one and...
Sep 8, 20161 min read
428. Paul Scott - The Towers Of Silence
Barbie now comes into focus. The whole thing is quite brilliant and I am amazed that he is not better known as a writer, and how long it...
Sep 2, 20161 min read
427. Paul Scott - The Day Of The Scorpion
Continued brilliance. Sarah Layton quite prominent in this book, which ends with her losing her virginity. To what extent is her sexual...
Aug 25, 20161 min read
426. Paul Scott - The Jewel In The Crown
Book of the year so fay, and by a long stretch. I have read this before, and we have watched and enjoyed the Granada DVD many times, but...
Oct 24, 20141 min read
256. Oli Broom - Cycling To The Ashes
Another cricket related birthday present, but this is a brilliant travel book, and the cricket is just a coat hanger to steer him...
Oct 10, 20141 min read
253. Miles Jupp - Fibber In The Heat
Lots of books as birthday presents. This I don’t think is one of the most distinguished, but people know I am a cricket fan. Miles Jupp,...
Oct 7, 20131 min read
152. E. M. Forster - A Passage To India
I started this to avoid starting no.153 before our flight to Barcelona and have just spilled a glass of water over the keyboard, but it...