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May 6, 20161 min read
396. Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn
I am not sure if I have ever read this before; although I have seen the TV adaptation many times and the book drags back memories,...
Oct 1, 20151 min read
341. William Boyd - A Good Man In Africa
I am sure I read this about 2 years ago and hated it. This time round it was very good, maybe in contrast to the excess Kate Atkinson in...
Jul 14, 20151 min read
321. Émile Zola - The Conquest Of Plassans
Plassans is the village where no.315 takes place, so we have moved back from Paris to Provence. A priest is taken in as lodger by a...
Mar 29, 20151 min read
291. Patrick White - The Vivisector
This is a long and difficult book; I did punctuate it with no.290. About a modernist painter in modern day Australia; dedicated to Sydney...
Aug 24, 20141 min read
237. D. H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover
Haven’t read any Lawrence for ages; I think that no.223 inclined me to read another novel of thwarted love across the classes. The sex is...
May 7, 20141 min read
204. John Updike - Couples
Reluctantly, as I hate doing this, I am abandoning this almost halfway through. It is quite different from what I expected — a...
Nov 26, 20131 min read
166. Lawrence Block - Getting Off
This is subtitled 'a novel of sex and violence' which pretty well sums it up. Trouble is that there isn’t a great deal else; there is not...
Mar 16, 20131 min read
86. Arnaldur Indridason - Black Skies
Not one of the better ones; this features Sigindur Oli who is the least likeable of the trio of detectives. Corruption amongst Icelandic...
Dec 26, 20121 min read
67. Sebastian Faulks - A Possible Life
Described as a novel, this is really five short stories, with obscure (if at all) thematic interlinkings. The best was the last one, but...
Oct 19, 20121 min read
50. William Boyd - Waiting For Sunrise
I loved this, although the ending defeated me slightly (can one be slightly defeated?). The characters were all so well delineated,...