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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, 5 March 2016

Essay: Who Reads The Book Before It Is Published?

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Quite often, no one, except maybe the author. That's my hypothesis. Here's the argument. On several occasions reviewing books here...
Wednesday, 2 March 2016

Review: Colm Toibin, Brooklyn

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I haven’t seen the film. Good films are often based on short or indifferent literary texts, but which have the potential to be transfo...
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...
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