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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, 24 June 2018

Books I Have Not Finished: Elif Batuman The Idiot

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I review books here on the promise that I have read them cover to cover. So there is really no trace of the many books I have started but ...
Wednesday, 20 June 2018

Review: Andrea Gullotta, Intellectual Life and Literature at Solovki 1923-1930

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At his 1926 trial, the fascist prosecutor of Antonio Gramsci, leader of the Italian Communist party, famously declared “For twenty ye...
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Tuesday, 12 June 2018

Review: William Boyd The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth and Sarah Winman Tin Man

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I finished Boyd's book feeling that I have gone through life with the wrong name. Trevor Pateman. It just wouldn’t make it in...
Friday, 8 June 2018

The Pitfalls of Academic Investment

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Suppose you are a student of the Arts and Humanities and end up spending five graduate years reading the works (all of them) of some well-...
Monday, 4 June 2018

Review: Paula Cocozza, How To Be Human

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On balance, No. Early on I was impressed by Cocozza’s ability to create suspense out of stock-in-trades of the thriller genre – simpl...
Friday, 1 June 2018

Available Now: Trevor Pateman, I Have Done This In Secret

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Click on Image to Magnify This memoir of my childhood was published  by degree zero on 8th June 2018. There is only a hardback edi...
Monday, 21 May 2018

Review: Megan Hunter, The End We Start From

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The publicity departments of corporate publishing like to decorate book covers with the Ooohs! and Aahs! of the great and the good...
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