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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. I can be contacted at patemantrevor at gmail. com

Monday, 13 March 2017

Review: Sebastian Barry, Days Without End

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This novel belongs to the Stiff Drink school of writing. You adopt your voice, you start in the middle of things and you keep go...
Friday, 10 March 2017

Social Text two decades on from the Sokal Affair

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Social Text   covers a broad spectrum of social and cultural phenomena, applying the latest interpretive methods to the world at large. ...
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...
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