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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.

Tuesday, 26 February 2019

Review: Annie Ernaux, The Years

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France was (and in many respects, still is) a nation of shopkeepers, and Annie Ernaux was born in 1940 into that very large part of ...
Sunday, 24 February 2019

Review: Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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The English as a people must now be reckoned mentally incapacitated from a surfeit of royal babies and costume dramas. Brideshead Re...
Sunday, 17 February 2019

Review: Bart van Es, The Cut Out Girl

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Bart van Es, a professor at Oxford University, sets out to research a breach in his Dutch family of origin. His father was the you...
Monday, 11 February 2019

Review: Julian Barnes, The Only Story

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At the heart of a melancholy disposition is a divided heart. When experienced, things which are presented to us as opposites - co...
Tuesday, 15 January 2019

Review: Sally Rooney, Normal People

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This novel does get a lot better in its final seventy pages, but for a couple of hundred pages it is simply too normal and I did not...
Saturday, 12 January 2019

Review: John le Carre, The Little Drummer Girl

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This is a very long book, 640 pages of reasonably spaced text in my edition. Published in 1983, the story is set within the ongoing ...
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Monday, 31 December 2018

Review: Tiffany Watt Smith, Schadenfreude

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I bought this book on the same visit to Waterstones as yielded the previous book reviewed here, Darren McGarvey’s Poverty Safari. I...
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