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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.

Sunday, 13 October 2013

Review: Allan Ahlberg, The Bucket

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That's a nice Book. I'll have that.
Sunday, 1 September 2013

Review: Victor Cha, The Impossible State: North Korea Past and Future

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You need to get past two things in order to read this long (529 page) book. First, the publishers don't employ a copy editor. As a...
Sunday, 4 August 2013

Review: Edward Luce, Time to Start Thinking. America and the Spectre of Decline

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My UK edition of this book does not have Library of Congress Cataloguing In classifications, but I guess they are "1 America 2 Doo...
Saturday, 27 July 2013

Review: David Caute, Isaac and Isaiah

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I had my doubts about buying this book. I thought it might be parochial. In the event, the plot structure is clever. David Caute re-cre...
Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Review: Vasily Grossman, An Armenian Sketchbook

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I previously wrote about Vasily Grossman's Everything Flows   (see my Post of 9 June 2012), a book I found powerful and moving. The...
Sunday, 21 July 2013

Review: John Dickie,Mafia Republic

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What is wrong with Italy? At the heart of Europe and the European Union, Italy ranks 72 out of 174 on Transparency International's ...
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Saturday, 13 July 2013

Review: Frank Ledwidge, Investment in Blood

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I reviewed Frank Ledwidge's previous book Losing Small Wars , about the British defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan. You can find the Review...
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