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Mar 31, 20221 min read
962. Patrick Gale - Mother's Boy
I love Patrick Gale, but struggled initially with this. The plot is very linear with few of the surprising plot twists that one expects....
Oct 18, 20181 min read
633. Pat Barker - The Silence Of The Girls
A retelling of ‘The Iliad’ from a woman’s perspective, so the central figure is Breisis (I think), a Trojan princess captured by the...
Sep 19, 20181 min read
625. Kate Atkinson - Transcription
3rd purchase from Smith’s at Gatwick, her new book which Paddy devoured before I did! Not as good as many of her books, a bit...
Jul 30, 20181 min read
614. Graham Greene - The Tenth Man
A very slight novelette, written as a film script when Greene was contracted to Hollywood post war as he couldn’t fund life from writing....
Dec 16, 20161 min read
453. Henning Mankell - Secrets In The Fire
A present from JG, as a bonus on top of the book (also by Mankell) that he lost and replaced. A short and slight book about a young girl...
Aug 29, 20151 min read
333. Kate Atkinson - A God In Ruins
As it is a library book, due back 5 September, I thought worth another read. It is actually quite an old fashioned novel, reminded me at...
Oct 18, 20131 min read
156. Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell To Arms
Took me all week to read this, because I began the week trying to read 'Mary Barton' by Mrs. Gaskell. I seem to have had a fall out with...
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...