| The Colonel’s Last Wicket by G V Rama Rao
| | The Colonel’s Last Wicket by G V Rama Rao is a delightful novel that uses scenarios and technicalities drawn from cricket to add poignancy to a gentle but moving story. This is not a book about... | | Book Reviews | | Updated: | 28-02-08 |
| Words: | 569 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| Victims
| | Thursday... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 28-02-08 |
| Words: | 5590 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| Willie The Actor by David Barry
| | At one level Willie The Actor by David Barry is a crime novel in which a ruthless criminal commits... | | Book Reviews | | Updated: | 28-02-08 |
| Words: | 596 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| Strangers
| | We arrived more than two hours later than planned, but the west of England summer light had not yet... | | Short Stories | | Updated: | 21-01-08 |
| Words: | 3498 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
| | The fly cover of On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan describes the book as “a short novel of remarkable... | | Book Reviews | | Genre: | fiction | | Updated: | 14-01-08 |
| Words: | 518 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| The Statement by Brian Moore
| | The Statement by Brian Moore is a little more than a pursuit thriller. I stress a little more... | | Book Reviews | | Genre: | crime | | Updated: | 03-01-08 |
| Words: | 651 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| A review of A Room At The Top by John Braine
| | It’s fifty years since A Room At The Top first appeared. Against a backdrop of post-war Britain, a period when people really did believe that a new future, a different kind of society was just... | | Book Reviews | | Updated: | 03-01-08 |
| Words: | 663 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| A review of Unless by Carol Shields
| | Unless by Carol Shields has been my third novel in a row written from the perspective of a... | | Book Reviews | | Updated: | 13-12-07 |
| Words: | 556 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| A review of A S Byatt’s A Whistling Woman
| | A S Byatt’s A Whistling Woman is a strange book. At one level it’s a straightforward account of... | | Book Reviews | | Updated: | 13-12-07 |
| Words: | 418 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| A review of The Gathering by Anne Enright
| | Anne Enright’s The Gathering deserves every ounce of praise it has received, and perhaps a bit... | | Book Reviews | | Updated: | 13-12-07 |
| Words: | 648 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| A review of Disgrace by J M Coetzee
| | Disgrace is a novel of a man’s, even a family’s decline. David Lurie is a university teacher,... | | Book Reviews | | Updated: | 30-11-07 |
| Words: | 451 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| A review of Going Home by Doris Lessing
| | It is fifty years since Doris Lessing published Going Home, an account of her return to Rhodesia,... | | Book Reviews | | Updated: | 26-11-07 |
| Words: | 702 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
| | One of my greatest pleasures is eating, so I must cook. I savour, therefore I cook. I like tasty... | | Book Reviews | | Updated: | 25-11-07 |
| Words: | 476 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| A review of The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
| | I have visited Turkey, but not Istanbul. It’s one of those iconic places that keeps cropping up in... | | Book Reviews | | Updated: | 25-10-07 |
| Words: | 643 | | Comments: | 1 | | Status: | Public |
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| Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
| | Anne Tyler’s Breathing Lessons is a giant of a book, a giant because of the way in which it gently... | | Book Reviews | | Updated: | 25-10-07 |
| Words: | 812 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| Mukiwa by Peter Godwin
| | Peter Godwin certainly has a story to tell. It’s a story of an idyllic, if unusual childhood, a... | | Book Reviews | | Updated: | 25-10-07 |
| Words: | 704 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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| A memory of Kyoto
| | It’s often that chance encounters, the unplanned events, linger, long after the excursions and the... | | Words: | 1234 | | Comments: | 0 | | Status: | Public |
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