Cabbie Monaco
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Friday, 29 November 2019
All the freedom that loneliness brings
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Quartet in Autumn traces the lives and thoughts of four office workers in London over the course of about a year, as they approach retirem...
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
They won't be so stupid as to fall for that clown
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'You may think that Germans are political idiots [-] and you may be right, but of one thing I can assure you, they won't be so stup...
Saturday, 26 October 2019
Good story, disappointing book
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What makes a good book? There are as many answers to this question as there are readers. And this reader's requirements weren't met...
An alternative history of World War II
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The Man in the High Castle poses an alternative history in which Japan and Germany were the victors of WW2, but don't be fooled by the...
A dislikable protagonist is no barrier to a good book
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I would never be gratuitously mean or violent, [-] but then nor would I ever put up with anybody or any situation that made life unbearable...
Sunday, 20 October 2019
To do evil that good might come
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A ferry makes a foggy approach to the Port of Dover in the atmospheric opening of The Confidential Agent . Graham Greene's description...
Monday, 14 October 2019
Be true to yourself
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Their Eyes Were Watching God is set in the southern USA when ex-slaves were still alive, and it's about the tribulations of a black wo...
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