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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.

Thursday, 17 November 2016

Essay: On Finishing a Book

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Someone said to me recently that you don't finish a book; you abandon it. I had already got to the point where I was tinkering and was ...
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Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Review: Paul Beatty, The Sellout

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I bought this book from the Waterstone's table of novels shortlisted for the Booker Prize, read it during a week working in Germany...
Monday, 17 October 2016

Review: Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project

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Waterstones had a table with Booker Prize Shortlist books and I bought this one for no other reason than that it has achieved publicity...
Thursday, 13 October 2016

Review: John le Carre, The Pigeon Tunnel

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I started into this three hundred page book of thirty eight mainly short chapters just as I was finalising a book of twenty six sho...
Thursday, 6 October 2016

Review: Helen Rappaport, Caught in the Revolution, Petrograd 1917

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Living capital cities are always full of foreigners and always have been. Occasionally, a sclerotic regime has tried to keep them out...
Tuesday, 27 September 2016

Review: Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch

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The Female Eunuch was published in 1970 when Germaine Greer was thirty or thirty one. I forget whether I read it at the time, though ...
Monday, 19 September 2016

Review: Amy Liptrot, The Outrun

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This is a lovely book written by a thirty year old woman who has returned to her native Orkney to recover having written off the best...
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