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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, 16 April 2019

Review: Tara Westover, Educated

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IN a footnote to his study of the Memoirs of Judge Schreber, Freud remarks that Schreber puts the most important things into footnot...
Sunday, 14 April 2019

Review: Isabel Hardman, Why We Get the Wrong Politicians

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This is a hand-wringing book by an Establishment political journalist about Establishment politicians and Parliament. It’s readable, f...
Friday, 12 April 2019

Booklaunch London

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Click  on Image to Enlarge In the April 2019 issue of Booklaunch you can read a long extract from my Prose Improvements  where I d...
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...
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