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Continue reading →: Book Review: Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
Talking Heads by Alan Bennett My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’m late to the Alan Bennett fan club, I’ll admit. I’m also not ashamed to say that a more urgent interest in him has directly arisen from watching the film “The Lady in the Van” which I thought was…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Five Go Gluten Free by Bruno Vincent
Five Go Gluten Free by Bruno Vincent My rating: 4 of 5 stars I never read reviews of books before I write one myself. I’d rather give my own thoughts and find I’m a lone voice than be influenced by the opinions of the masses. However, after writing a review…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Five on Brexit Island by Bruno Vincent
Sometimes, you just want a book to chill out with rather than tax your heart or your mind. For that reason I picked up my two ‘Enid Blyton for adults’ books, bought for me as a Christmas gift, and decided to plough through them. They were obviously going to be…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan My rating: 5 of 5 stars It is not normal to say this about a book of history but: ‘The Silks Roads’ is one of the most exciting and illuminating books I’ve ever read. By ‘exciting’ I mean…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
This was a novel I was looking forward to reading. There’s something lovely about period novels (this one set in 17th century Amsterdam) because they are usually well-researched and details are accurate. In today’s internet-ready global village, an author can’t get away with ‘winging it’ any longer. There’s always some…
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Continue reading →: Announcement: My next book is coming!
I am very pleased to announce that my forthcoming new book ‘Mad Dogs & Englishmen…’ is coming very forth indeed! Part travelogue, part guide to the newbie visitor to Bangladesh, ‘Mad Dogs’ will educate and amuse readers who want to know just what it feels like to be a foreigner in a very…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
This novel was bought as holiday slush, a get-away-from-real-work kind of a book. Yet another semi-tired old post-apocalyptic flesh-eating zombie story which combined ‘I am Legend’ with ’28 Weeks Later’. While I can’t pretend the novel is a literary masterpiece or that Carey has completely blown the whole virus-attack zombie…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The need for conversion may have arisen from prejudice, I confess. On reading an interview with the author recently – who has just published her second book after 20 years – I was reminded that ‘The God of Small Things’ was on my bucket list to read; one of many,…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Luther and the 9.5 Theses by Kenneth Brownell
Kenneth Brownell’s short book gets four stars from me as an ‘average’. Aspects of the book swing from little more than three to a definite five. I shall attempt to unpack why and how. It is remarkable that in the academic world of research, despite all researchers knowing the importance…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Ok so I get the metaphorical nature of GGM’s novel. I understand the aspect of magical realism. I have no choice at all but to catch the motif of ‘solitude’ in all its facets (I appreciate I’m reading a translation but even so, he hammers the word home a lot!).…
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