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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, 28 January 2018

The Awfulness of Modern Book Design and Production

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It’s very hard to sell books, I’m told, and that’s one reason why publishers try to keep them cheap. Modern printing technology has slashe...
Saturday, 27 January 2018

Review: Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

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This is a long, leisurely book, with a single narrator who does not have the benefit of a university education and who sustains a str...
Wednesday, 10 January 2018

My Waterstones Page - Visit to Order Online!

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Trevor Pateman Added to basket ADD TO BASKET Key Concepts: A Guide to Aesthetics, Criticism and the Arts in...
Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Review: Anne Applebaum, Red Famine

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Anne Applebaum’s becomes a very readable book and impresses as very well documented and argued, but it starts badly. The bad start has...
Saturday, 6 January 2018

Review: Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge

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I recall as a teenager sitting hunched, gripped and tearful over The Mayor of Casterbridge . When I got to Henchard’s Testament on th...
Monday, 1 January 2018

Review: Zadie Smith, Swing Time

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I don’t think I’ve read Zadie Smith since White Teeth (2000) which I liked. So when I came to this new novel there was a lot I had r...
Saturday, 30 December 2017

My Book of The Year: Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War

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The Financial Times , where I turn to more often than to the TLS or the LRB for Arts & Books news and reviews - the FT is more radica...
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