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Madame Matisse by Sophie Haydock
This book has the best book cover of the year so far. Matisse-like shapes of bodies and flowers in pinks and oranges spread across a…
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Damned if I do by Percival Everett
This is a collection of short stories that are surreal, cyclical and downright quirky in places and most of them I didn’t really understand in…
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The Adventures of huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I read this book as part of my James planned year of reading – James by Percival Everett. James was the best book I read…
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Orbital by Samantha Harvey
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The Bookshop Penelope Fitzgerald
I have always wanted to work in a bookshop and on several occasions wondered whether to apply to our local chain over Christmas time. I…
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Jacob’s room is full of books by Susan Hill
Perhaps I should have waited a little while and not read books from authors about their reading consecutively because invariably you compare and one comes…
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I recently watched a short snippet of the Australian version of Goggle Box where they were commenting on a programme that integrated four year olds…
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Translated by Jo Heinrich I am frantically reading shorter novels to find my next book for book club. We have a month to read a…
Trying to read all the good books 