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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, 29 September 2015

Review: Joseph Kanon, Leaving Berlin

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The old Aristotelian device of “unity of time, place and action” works for the novel as well as for the theatre. If you want to creat...
Sunday, 13 September 2015

Review: Clive Driscoll, In Pursuit of the Truth

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I usually have a fairly straightforward response to a book; to this one, I don’t London’s Metropolitan Police has a reputation fo...
Thursday, 10 September 2015

Review: Atul Gawande, Being Mortal

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This is a very well written and very interesting book. It argues that the elderly frail and the dying can enjoy a better quality of lif...
Sunday, 6 September 2015

Review: Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word

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Books are read in context. I was working for a couple of days in Wiesbaden and took with me an unfinished Caitlin Moran How To Build ...
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...
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