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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, 30 March 2024

My Life in Letters Then and Emails Now

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. From the published volume of letters A Private Spy (2022) it’s clear that John le CarrĂ© was good at keeping up with his correspondence....
Tuesday, 19 March 2024

Review Sathnam Sanghera Empireworld

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  This book is based on extensive research converted into very readable prose. It’s packed with detail some or much of which will be unfam...
Saturday, 9 March 2024

Review: Peter Ackroyd The English Soul Faith of a Nation

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    Reading this book was like working through a cut and paste job. Peter Ackroyd acknowledges the help of two research assistants (Thom...
Saturday, 11 November 2023

Review Angela Saini Inferior

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    Angela Saini describes herself as a science journalist and this 2017 book is a fine piece of investigative journalism in which she g...
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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