Cabbie Monaco
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Saturday, 29 April 2017
The price of a fur coat or thereabouts
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" [-] chastity was worth more than rubies, but the truth was it was priced at a fur coat or thereabouts. " I'm reading and r...
Thursday, 27 April 2017
No happy endings
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There are probably more people who have seen the movie of Fight Club than have read the book. I decided to read it because I've develo...
Tuesday, 25 April 2017
Lancashire weather and religious superstition
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Rain, mist and wind are intrinsic to the landscape of Lancashire and to the atmosphere of Andrew Michael Hurley's book The Loney. Descr...
Sunday, 23 April 2017
No satisfactory ending
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" [-] conceived and written as a single narrative. It's division into four hefty volumes was decided when I realized that the stor...
Friday, 21 April 2017
Groan-worthy puns
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Perhaps this is one of those books that improves with a second reading. Initially, I just didn't connect with Charles Pooter, the Nobo...
Thursday, 20 April 2017
Painfully poignant
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A friend told me that Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach was one of only two books that made her cry. It describes the 1962 wedding night o...
Monday, 17 April 2017
Phil Mitchell's fidgety sausage
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I can never again look at Eastenders's Phil Mitchell's bald head without thinking about a fidgety sausage. Caitlin Moran takes us ...
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