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The author of this blog is Trevor Pateman. I have purchased all the books reviewed here except a very few noted as sent to me. My own books are cheapest at blackwells.co.uk and are usually on Amazon. I can be found at academia.edu but do not have an X account and never used Twitter; that is another Trevor Pateman.

Tuesday, 27 May 2025

Why No New Book Reviews?

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I'm working on a book, an anthology of letters written in the  period 1800 - 1840, and nearly all my reading right now is devoted to bac...
Monday, 10 March 2025

Catherine Nixey Heresy

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  It's a long time since I posted a review of a new book but this one is so good that it prompts me to put aside preoccupation with fini...
Thursday, 14 November 2024

Sylvia Townsend Warner and a Proposed Dorchester Effigy

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  This is the full version of a letter of which a small  extract appears in M.C.'s column at the Times Literary Supplement November 15 ...
Tuesday, 8 October 2024

Nick Bradley Four Seasons in Japan

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  This is a very well-conceived and structured book; it kept my attention throughout. Flo Dunthorpe living in Japan decides to translate an ...
Friday, 23 August 2024

Anna Reid A Nasty Little War - Review

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  There are people who reckon that war brings out the best in human beings; no one claims that for civil wars which unfailingly bring out th...
Monday, 19 August 2024

Rebecca F Kuang Yellowface - Review

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  It’s nearly impossible to buy a new novel in a bookshop; unless it’s a Fitzcarraldo edition you have to buy a more-or-less lurid and ludic...
Friday, 5 July 2024

Review: Francis Mulhern and Stefan Collini, What Is Cultural Criticism?

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  I read in the newspapers (and so betray my age) that we are in the middle of world-wide culture wars, fought on multiple fronts by many mi...
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