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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

Friday, 28 July 2017

Review: Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

Click on Image to Magnify This is an interesting book, but not quite as good as the jacket quotations. Nothing new in that. It is...

Friday, 21 July 2017

Review: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, everybody lies

When people answer questions from pollsters, they lie. When they make Google searches, they don’t. They know they can delete their br...

Thursday, 8 June 2017

Review: Graham Swift, Mothering Sunday

Click on Image to Magnify I read this novella - 35 000 words – and thought it was beautifully conceived and crafted, one of the bes...

Monday, 5 June 2017

An Intellectual Biography?

A lphabetical Thinking I have been organising my thoughts alphabetically for many years. Emptying out a cupboard, I found a sheet of fool...

Sunday, 28 May 2017

Review: China Mieville, October

Click on Image to Magnify I sense that in Russia, the hundredth anniversary of 1917 is a bit of an embarrassment. The current gover...

Tuesday, 23 May 2017

Review: Matisse in the Studio, edited by Ellen McBreen and Helen Burnham

Click on Image to Magnify Everything we write is marked by the time and place in which we write, sometimes very lisibly so as in th...

Saturday, 6 May 2017

Review: Tim Marshall, Worth Dying For. The Power and Politics of Flags

Click on Image to Magnify Back on 11 August 2016, I reviewed here Tim Marshall’s Prisoners of Geography which I felt had a lot of z...

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