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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.

Sunday, 27 August 2017

A Life in Books

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I began reading grown-up books when I was twelve or thirteen and by grown-up I mean Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner and Edgar Wallac...
Saturday, 26 August 2017

Review: Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population

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On my desktop I have a Word doc. titled “The Surplus Population” and it is in the context of a desire to expand on that title that I ...
Saturday, 12 August 2017

Review: Alison Bechdel, The Fun Home

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I don’t think I have read a comic book / graphic novel since the first volumes of Maus and I only read this one because it was sent t...
Wednesday, 9 August 2017

Review: Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

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When you publish a book, anyone can read it and make what they will of it. That truth is strikingly demonstrated by Maggie Nelson whe...
Tuesday, 1 August 2017

Review: Alex Preston, In Love and War

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Click on Image to Magnify The cynicism of the cover drew my attention to this book on the Waterstones table. We have seen this cove...
Friday, 28 July 2017

Review: Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

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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

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