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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

Wednesday, 13 July 2016

Deborah Cameron's Summer Reading Picks

Times Higher Education summer reads 2016 Members of the higher education community tell us about two books they plan to take on holiday: ...

Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Review: Robert Roper, Nabokov in America

The core of this book is a scholarly study of how Lolita was made.It's clever idea was to notice that Lolita is a road-novel in w...

Thursday, 7 April 2016

On sale now: Trevor Pateman's new book The Best I Can Do

Click on Image to Enlarge This is the cover, ready for its ISBN barcode 978-0-9935879-0-0. Inside, 165 pages of text occupied by 26...

Monday, 28 March 2016

Review: Richard Murphy, The Joy of Tax

This is an interesting, articulate book which criticises the United Kingdom's failing tax system and proposes a fairer system and ...

Saturday, 5 March 2016

Review: Gerald Steinacher, Nazis on The Run

This review was first published on www.trevorpatemanblog.com 27June 2011. It has been posted,unchanged,here to link to the immediatel...

Essay: Who Reads The Book Before It Is Published?

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

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...

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