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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.

Friday, 30 July 2021

Review: Angie Schmitt, Right of Way

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  We Need to Talk About SUVs. The United Sates is, apparently, very wealthy but on a wide range of well-being indicators it scores poorly....
Monday, 26 July 2021

Review: Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

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  I admire Victorian novelists who scratched away with quills (later, steel pens) and candlelight to produce very long novels. True, the lon...
Tuesday, 13 July 2021

Should I Read William Empson's The Structure of Complex Words?

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  Oxford University Press has recently published scholarly editions of two books by William Empson (1906-1984): Some Versions of Pastoral ...
Saturday, 12 June 2021

Review: Duncan Minshull (Ed.), Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe

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  I bought this because I  read a favourable review and because I sometimes write essays which describe a walk. The book was a pleasure to...
Thursday, 6 May 2021

Review: Karl Schlögel, The Scent of Empires

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    Timothy Snyder   provided a blurb for the publisher of this book and that caused me to buy it, since Snyder’s own work is very, very i...
Wednesday, 17 March 2021

Review: Hazel V. Carby, Imperial Intimacies

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  There was a period when genealogists were specialists in pedigree and I guess there are still those who want to know where they stand in t...
Wednesday, 10 February 2021

Review: Philip Stephens, Britain Alone

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  This is a fluent narrative of the United Kingdom’s external political relations with the USA and the European Union from the Suez debacl...
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