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The Black Loch Peter May
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Hansel and Gretel Simon Armitage
A nightmare in eight scenes, illustrated by Clive-Hicks Jenkins This is the fairy tale updated for the 21st Century set amidst war with hunger and…
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Polostan by Neal Stephenson
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The Aleph Jorge Louis Borges
I am reading this short story as part of a Short Story Month on Beyond the Bookshelf’s substack focusing on Borges story The Aleph. So…
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The Hidden Hand Stella Rimington
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The Seventh Floor David McCloskey
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This must be the most plotless, but definitely not pointless, book I have ever read. It is our choice, picked out of a hat of…
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A tussle between two mediums in the late 1800s ends with a more mature understanding of women supporting women than their behaviour might have suggested.…
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The minds of writers fascinate me because they are so different to mine. Often after reading book I will consider what a writer must have…
Trying to read all the good books 