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Feb 25, 20221 min read
950. Owen Jones - This Land
A book about the failure of the Corbyn experiment in the Labour party. Far too long and detailed for me. Jones clearly endorsed the...
Nov 24, 20211 min read
917. Sasha Swire - Diary Of An MP's Wife
Didn’t really know what to make of this. Far too long; should have been edited down to c300 pages rather than 500. Sasha Swire is the...
Nov 20, 20211 min read
916. Steve Richards - The Prime Ministers
A commentary, by a political journalist, on British prime ministers from Wilson to Johnson, so roughly covering my adult life. Very good,...
Mar 8, 20211 min read
851. Tatton Spiller - We're Living Through The Breakdown
This is a sort of 'Dummies Guide' to UK politics and the underlying ideological issues, written I am told for the younger generation who...
Dec 27, 20161 min read
456. Robert Ford & Matthew Goodwin - Revolt On The Right
This is by a university academic about the rise of UKIP. Full of (to me) uninteresting graphs, but the basic narrative was quite...
Jun 13, 20151 min read
312. George Eliot - Felix Holt: The Radical
I suppose a pre-cursor of Middlemarch, this centres on the 1832 general election, which seems to have post-dated some electoral reform....
Jan 17, 20141 min read
178. Evie Wyld - All The Birds, Singing
Just re-read it; it is a brilliant book, once you can follow the plotting which is alternative chapters, odd numbers set on the island...
Jan 14, 20141 min read
177. Evie Wyld - All The Birds, Singing
Paddy got this from the library; it is written by some bright young thing ex Jesus College, where she used to work. It is very, very...
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...
Jun 12, 20131 min read
115. David Lodge - Out Of The Shelter
Aeroplane reading en route for Spain. Haven't read a David Lodge for years. Coming of age novel, apparently quite autobiographical, set...