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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, 3 February 2016

Review: Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

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There are many classical musical compositions which introduce material bit by bit - instruments, keys,chords, harmonies, melodies ... a...
Thursday, 21 January 2016

Review: David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl

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I haven't seen the film but I skimmed a couple of reviews and, as a result, picked up the novel - originally published in 2000 - f...
Saturday, 5 December 2015

Review: Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

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This book was getting lots of Likes in the Books of the Year lists published in English newspapers and magazines, so I bought it an...
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...
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