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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.

Saturday, 29 November 2014

Review: Jane Austen

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A year or so ago, the publisher Carmen Callil resigned as a judge for the Man Booker International prize, which was shortly thereafter ...
Thursday, 20 November 2014

Review: Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

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“What If?” historical novels and alternative histories are inevitably at risk of failure. The reason is very simple. We expect our st...
Friday, 14 November 2014

Review: Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

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Published in 1954, this book is still funny to this English reader 60 years later. It’s probably a very English kind of humour: it bel...
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Saturday, 8 November 2014

Review: Lynda La Plante, Wrongful Death

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As a teenager, I read lots and lots of Agatha Christie and Erle Stanley Gardner but since then it is only recent ill-health which has l...
Wednesday, 5 November 2014

Review: Milan Kundera, L'Art du Roman

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This is a book of great clarity, a virtue linked (as Roland Barthes once observed) to the desire to persuade. It is also a book which ...
Sunday, 2 November 2014

Review: Ismail Kadare, The Concert

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This is a translation from the French, itself a translation from the Albanian. I have to think that the author is badly served by one o...
Saturday, 25 October 2014

Review: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah

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If pressed, I would say that I prefer novels with unity of time, place and action. And not too many characters. Especially, not too man...
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