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Apr 13, 20191 min read
677. Simon Mawer - Prague Spring
This was as good as the other 2 (665 & 666 above), and despite my negative comments about e-reading above, you can buy these without...
Sep 4, 20171 min read
519. Benjamin Black - Prague Nights
Benjamin Black is the non de plume of John Banville, not that I have heard of him either. This is a slightly picaresque quasi-historical...
Sep 17, 20141 min read
246. Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
Enjoyed ‘The Trial’ enough to read another Kafka, but Metamorphosis has less weight; it is very internal and apart from Gregor’s family,...
Sep 13, 20141 min read
244. Franz Kafka - The Trial
Bought this in 1972, a few years ago; wonder what I made of it then? I thought it was really good and quite funny – hard going in places,...
May 17, 20141 min read
210. Bruce Chatwin - Utz
Didn’t want to overdo the Greene while we were stuck in Bristol, so borrowed a couple more, which I haven’t read yet. Never read any...