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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.

Tuesday, 7 February 2017

Review: Svetlana Alexievich, Second-Hand Time

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It’s often said that in Russia human life has never been valued. Ever since the Romanovs installed themselves back in 1613, human bei...
Friday, 6 January 2017

Trevor Pateman, Silence Is So Accurate

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Available now. The book is only available in Hardback and offers 224 pages of essays in autobiography and criticism. Find it at Amazon or or...
Wednesday, 14 December 2016

Review: Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent

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The Victorians have left us so many narratives of themselves that we are spoilt for choice if we want to re-invent them for ourselves...
Monday, 12 December 2016

Review: Dear Willy ... Edited by Claire Ohlsson Geheb

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Click on Image to Magnify This is an unusually interesting compilation of family letters and personal journals, kept in a suitcase by...
Saturday, 10 December 2016

Reading To Some Purpose - Advice to a Young Academic

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I sometimes imagine some post-mortem pie chart which shows how I used the hours of my life.  Sleeping will provide the biggest slice, o...
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...
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