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The author of this blog is Trevor Pateman. I have purchased all the books reviewed here unless stated otherwise. My own books are cheapest at blackwells.co.uk. I can be found at academia.edu but am not on X and never used Twitter. New July 2026: www.otherpeoplesletters.com where I transcribe and introduce letters I have found outside archives, mostly written 1750-1850

Tuesday, 18 January 2022

Review: Michael Morris Real Likenesses

Back in 1975 a philosopher, Colin Radford, presented a paper to the Aristotelian Society in London with the title, “How Can We Be ...

Saturday, 15 January 2022

Review: Abigail Dean, Girl A

I nearly didn’t buy this book from the Waterstones table. It was suffering from Sandwich Board failure. If one shopkeeper puts out a sandw...

Friday, 24 December 2021

Review: Damon Galgut The Promise

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.

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

Thursday, 9 December 2021

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Tuesday, 7 December 2021

Review Jack Kerouac On the Road

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

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...

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