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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.

Saturday, 21 October 2023

Review Anthony Trollope Barchester Towers - and the Victorian Novel

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  Go back fifty years and you will meet a young man who as a teenager had read a handful of Victorian novels and been devastated by one ( ...
Thursday, 5 October 2023

Bargains at Blackwells on Trevor Pateman's Books

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I see that my preferred bookseller Blackwells has massively reduced the online prices on my books, most of which they have in stock. Hurry, ...
Sunday, 24 September 2023

Review: Sarah Ogilvie The Dictionary People

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The Victorians were terrific collectors of both the animate and the inanimate, often indiscriminately and always excited by the rare and e...
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Friday, 14 July 2023

Trevor Pateman Culture as Anarchy

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  My latest small book (64 pages) offers five inter-connected semi-academic/informal essays on the theme of cultural change. They develop id...
Sunday, 14 May 2023

Granta Issue 163 Best of Young British Novelists

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  Oh dear. Is this really the best? The current issue of Granta (number 163) showcases in 270 pages the work of Young British Novelists w...
Tuesday, 2 May 2023

We Need to Talk about Diacritical Marks

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  At school in the early 1960s we had a History textbook which devoted a chapter to the Reign of Lewis XIV. My  teenage self was scornful: H...
Monday, 3 April 2023

Josephine Tey Miss Pym Disposes

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  I suppose it was commercial publishers who invented the genre novel as something which could be packaged and sold as Crime, Mystery, Hor...
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