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Love in a Cold Climate / Nancy Mitford
I present to you my Grade Four review of Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford. Things I liked about this book: It’s by a Mitford. The good thing about this set of British aristocrats is that, while...
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The Mystery of the Blue Train / Agatha Christie
Obviously, this is not my picture. It comes via. but it’s kind of a much better picture than the one I took and can’t upload because none of the three PCs at the house I’m currently staying at have...
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After the Fire, A Still Small Voice / Evie Wyld
Something to listen to, this time: the review of Evie Wyld’s After the Fire, A Still Small Voice I did for Radio National’s The Book Show. I get some tonal variation in my voice after the first thirty...
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Gallimaufry / Michael Quinion
We hear a lot about the death of language. Whether it’s the death of the author, the novel, the letter – every literary item imaginable has, it seems, been eulogised. Michael Quinion’s Gallimaufry is...
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The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ / Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy are three of my favourite books in the world. The books, if you haven’t read them, follow the adventures of a young girl called Lyra, who lives in a...
View ArticleWorking the Room and Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi / Geoff Dyer
I was having a chat with some nice people the other day, and one of them said, ‘There is nothing so sad as a moribund blog’. I’m not quoting exactly, but that’s basically the gist of it. As he said...
View ArticleThe iPad diaries: Northanger Abbey / Jane Austen
That sound you can hear is the rusty gate of this blog creaking open. Is that a mixed metaphor? I don’t even know anymore. Where am I? Who are you? Who am I? Just kidding, you guys. My brain is totally...
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Bring Up the Bodies / Hilary Mantel*
Please note I resisted the urge to call this post ‘Bring Up the Motherf***ing Bodies, Bitch’ (though said urge was merely displaced by the urge to put it in a prefatory explanatory note). Just did a...
View ArticleLibrary book clearinghouse, Part II
I have been getting right into the library over the past couple of months. We might be moving house in a while so I’ve been trying not to accumulate more books for the moment. Honestly, I think my...
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The Bone Season / Samantha Shannon*
I heard about this book when Shannon originally signed her seven-book deal (!!), and it was all over the publishing news. The fantasy nerd in me got very excited, and now the first book has landed....
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