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The author of this blog is Trevor Pateman. I have purchased all the books reviewed here unless stated otherwise. My own books are cheapest at blackwells.co.uk. I can be found at academia.edu but am not on X and never used Twitter. New July 2026: www.otherpeoplesletters.com where I transcribe and introduce letters I have found outside archives, mostly written 1750-1850

Thursday, 20 August 2015

Review: Kirstin Innes. Fishnet

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The UK-based The Guardian newspaper organises an annual Not The Booker Prize literary competition and it has just published the Sho...
Monday, 17 August 2015

Review: William Faulkner, Light in August

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Light in August was published in 1932, just twenty years before Harper Lee began writing. In comparison to her books, it's a ...
Thursday, 6 August 2015

Review: Rhidian Brook, The Aftermath

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Germany in the immediate aftermath of World War Two is a popular setting for contemporary novels written in English. On this site, I ha...
Monday, 3 August 2015

Review: Tim Butcher, The Trigger

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This is a beautifully crafted and very readable book. The author retraced - literally, as a hiker - the steps which took Gavrilo Princi...
Thursday, 30 July 2015

Review: Ferdinand von Schirach, The Girl Who Wasn't There

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I didn’t find this a gripping novel in the way that the author’s previous book The Collini Case is gripping: I read that book in a sin...
Sunday, 26 July 2015

Review: Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

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Basically,No. It’s a pity that Harper Lee was prevailed upon to release this novel written half a century ago and before she wrote To...
Saturday, 27 June 2015

Review: Suzanne O'Sullivan, It's All in Your Head

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This is another book picked up by chance in Waterstone's and a most unusual one too. It's quite easy to find books which na...
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