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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.

Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Review: Ben Fergusson, The Spring of Kasper Meier

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I had just read Joseph Kanon's, The Good German (see previous review) so I was curious to see how this book, also set in the ruins ...
Monday, 19 January 2015

Review: Jospeh Kanon, The Good German

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This is a readable book, but even at 500+ pages, it tries to do too much. It is most satisfactory as a credible recreation of life ...
Sunday, 11 January 2015

Review: Nicholas Shakespeare, Priscilla

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This is a remarkably interesting book. But rather than being the story of a War Heroine - as one might imagine from the cover - it’s ...
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...
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