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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, 24 December 2021

Review: Damon Galgut The Promise

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  It felt like the triumph of hope over experience when I picked up this Booker Prize winner from the Waterstones table. After the disappoin...
Saturday, 18 December 2021

Review: The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes by Zoe Playdon.

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    This book is like a novel with an unreliable narrator. Zoë  Playdon assembles a great deal of interesting and important material but she...
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Thursday, 9 December 2021

Treat Yourself to One of My Books this Christmas ....

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Tuesday, 7 December 2021

Review Jack Kerouac On the Road

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  I can see how this book might have been a publishing sensation in 1957 just because it depicts a very different post-War American world to...
Thursday, 2 December 2021

Review: L P Hartley The Go Between

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I admire novelists who manage both to take their time in telling a story but also  manage to meet the common expectation of readers that the...
Wednesday, 1 December 2021

Review: Zoë Playdon, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes

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  This book is like a novel with an unreliable narrator. Zoë    Playdon assembles a great deal of interesting and important material but she...
Thursday, 18 November 2021

Review: E M Forster, Maurice

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  I hadn’t read this before; it was a disappointment. Its history is fairly well-known: written fairly impulsively in 1913-1914 as a novel w...
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