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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, 7 November 2015

Review: Ian McEwan The Children Act

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England has an Establishment, utterly sure of itself, and most of its members live for part of the year in London where they circulat...
Saturday, 24 October 2015

Review: Timothy Snyder, Black Earth

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This is really three books in one. The first part aims to shift the way we see the Holocaust. When something becomes familiar a...
Sunday, 18 October 2015

Review: Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

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I think Michel Houellebecq is a very good writer - sometimes superb - but I don't think this is a good novel. It doesn't really...
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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 ...
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