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Aug 8, 20221 min read
1003. Dawnie Walton - The Final Revival Of Opal & Nev
Very different and quite strange. A fictionalised documentary history of a singing duo, Nev a brummie who escapes to the US to pursue...
Feb 4, 20221 min read
941. David Mitchell - Utopia Avenue
Never heard of the author, although he has written a lot and this was very good. About the fictional mid 1960’s rock band, covering their...
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...
Jun 17, 20181 min read
600. Laura Barnett - Greatest Hits
One of Paddy’s, the fictionalised biography of an English, Sandy Denny type and era folk/rock singer (born c1950 so of our era)....
Sep 20, 20171 min read
526. Lloyd Whitesell - The Music Of Joni Mitchell
An unread birthday or Xmas present from a few years ago, but we went to see a tribute band just before we went away. Quite an academic...
Jan 14, 20171 min read
460. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
A Christmas best seller for middle aged men (I am told). I thought this was very good; Springsteen is a pretty honest guy, not at all...
Jun 2, 20161 min read
406. Peter Robinson - The Summer That Never Was
Great airport reading choice; I think one of Robinson’s best. About two dead adolescent boys – 30 years apart, one a schoolfriend of...
Jun 18, 20141 min read
222. Thomas Mann - BuddenBrooks
If I have read Thomas Mann before, it was 'Death in Venice' 40 years ago. This, especially the first half, was a wonderfully stately...
Jan 5, 20131 min read
70. Neil Young - Waging Heavy Peace
(Requested) Xmas present from my son D. I enjoyed it in the end; found it difficult at first as: I was expecting a linear narrative Some...