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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, 23 August 2024

Anna Reid A Nasty Little War - Review

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  There are people who reckon that war brings out the best in human beings; no one claims that for civil wars which unfailingly bring out th...
Monday, 19 August 2024

Rebecca F Kuang Yellowface - Review

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  It’s nearly impossible to buy a new novel in a bookshop; unless it’s a Fitzcarraldo edition you have to buy a more-or-less lurid and ludic...
Friday, 5 July 2024

Review: Francis Mulhern and Stefan Collini, What Is Cultural Criticism?

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  I read in the newspapers (and so betray my age) that we are in the middle of world-wide culture wars, fought on multiple fronts by many mi...
Friday, 14 June 2024

The Foyle's Bookshop Strike 1965

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  Edited extract from a 2012 Blog post: I was 17. After A levels in summer 1964 I travelled to Sweden to spend the summer working in a hotel...
Friday, 24 May 2024

Book Blogging since 2012: A Retrospective

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  My original reviews of books mentioned in this essay can be located by typing author and title into the search bar above.   I buy, r...
Tuesday, 30 April 2024

On Difficulty and Obfuscation

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    Parliamentarians of the English Civil War period expressed the hope that one day the laws of England might be compressed into “the b...
Saturday, 27 April 2024

Review Peter Ackroyd The English Soul

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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 (Thomas ...
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