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Monday, 30 December 2019
Book of the Month: Tigerman (Nick Harkaway)
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Nick Harkaway is the pseudonym of Nicholas Cornwell. Nicholas Cornwell is the son of the legendary John le Carre, which, of course, i...
Sunday, 29 December 2019
Bloody Christmas
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Another Christmas is over. This year’s Christmas lasted longer. Almost four hours longer than the last year’s, by my reckoning. When you a...
Wednesday, 29 May 2019
Book of the Month: The Laughing Monsters (Denis Johnson)
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The Laughing Monsters is the first book of Denis Johnson, who died in 2016, I read. I decided to read a novel by Johnson after I read...
Sunday, 31 March 2019
Book of the Month: The Collaborator (Mirza Waheed)
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The unnamed narrator of The Collaborator , Mirza Waheed’s debut novel, a finalist for the 2011 Guardian Best Debut Novel award, is a 1...
Sunday, 24 February 2019
Book of the Month: The Misogynist (Piers Paul Read)
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In Nothing to be Afraid of (also reviewed on this blog), Julian Barnes’s entertaining and immensely readable meditation on death, app...
Monday, 28 January 2019
Book of the Month: Here I Am (Jonathan Saffron Foer)
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The title of Jonathan Safron Foer’s 2016 novel, his first in a decade, is taken from the Book of Genesis. “Here I am,” is what Abrah...
Sunday, 27 January 2019
Books Read in 2018
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Below is a list of books I managed to finish reading in 2018. The Shrimp & the Anemone (LP Hartley) The Train (George...
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