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Friday, 31 July 2020
One reads for pleasure. It is not a public duty.
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I've been watching Season 1 of The Crown again and particularly enjoyed episode 7, Scientia Potentia Est(1). Poor Princess Elizabeth s...
Monday, 27 July 2020
The culmination of a lifetime of struggle
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In the Prologue to A Cure for Gravity Joe Jackson describes an eventful 1975 gig in Basingstoke. He follows up with musings on where his l...
Thursday, 16 July 2020
The problem of society's expectations
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How could a white person know what it's like to be a BAME woman in the UK? A good place to start is to read Bernardine Evaristo's G...
Thursday, 9 July 2020
What's with the teeth?
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Is there anything more that can be said about Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory ? Three things spring to mind. First, there are th...
Monday, 29 June 2020
A dream-like love story
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The blurb for Jonathan Coe's The House of Sleep didn't really sell the book. It was instead a positive discussion on a podcast tha...
Sunday, 21 June 2020
The decline of Bolton
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Ian Robinson's The Town that Vanished uses the Mass Observation Worktown investigation of the late 1930s " as a frame of referenc...
Sunday, 14 June 2020
The obsession of a spy
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Francesca Kay's The Long Room is a story about the loneliness and obsessions of a spy, the sort of spy whose life is dull, drab and te...
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