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These Boots Were Made For Walking…………….Book Review of Etta and Otto and...
……………………………In the days since I finished reading Emma Hooper’s debut novel ‘Etta and Otto and Russell and James’, I’ve been wondering how to describe because it seems to sit somewhere in between a...
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Return Of The Mac!………….Book Review of The Children Act by Ian McEwan
………………………………………Reading this was a bit like rediscovering an old shirt at the back of the wardrobe that I’d once loved, had stopped wearing as I’d put on weight and then eons later finding it AND...
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Are These The Sexiest Books Ever?
……………………If your idea of a sexy book is the gardening classic Fifty Sheds of Grey, or it’s Northern cousin Fifty Shades of Gravy, then this post will be a disappointment to you. But if you aren’t...
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“I Fear I Am Not In My Perfect Mind”………….. Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey
“Pray do not mock me I am a very foolish fond old man Fourscore and upward Not an hour more or less And to deal plainly I fear I am not in my perfect mind Methinks I should know you And know this man”...
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Problem Posed. Problem Pondered. Problem Past…..with Helpful Haruki The...
…………………………………………….. A couple of months back I read that Haruki Murakami was to become an agony uncle and that he would ‘answer questions of any kind’ on his website! Now I’ve no idea what an agony...
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Where The Streets Have No Sane………………. Barcelona Shadows by Marc Pastor
………………………………………… Just occassionally you read a book that not only resonates with you as a story, but it resonates with the world around you. Reading Marc Pastors novel about a female serial killer...
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The Book Most Likely To……………. Do Something Funny For Money!
…………… It’s Red Nose Day tonight, one of the most important and most inspirational fundraising events in the UK. It’s celebrating its 30th Year in 2015 and to date has raised over £1 BILLION!j So to fit...
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Even In The Warmest Glow, How Cold The Shadow …………….. The Illuminations by...
………………………………….. The dictionary gives six different meanings of the verb to illuminate: to supply with light; to make lucid or clear; to decorate with lights; to enlighten; to make illustrious; and to...
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A Man Walked Into A Bar And Went “Aaaagh”………….Two Pints by Roddy Doyle
That post title is taken from my favourite drunken joke as a student (that would imply I had a favourite sober joke as student – I didn’t – I did virtually all my studying and philosophising and...
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The Phil Thrill!………………………. Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson
…………………………………… I bought this on the basis of two connected recommendations. Firstly the cover has a little sticker on it which reads “The best thriller I’ve ever read – Philip Pullman”. On the strength...
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