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Novelist as a vocation by Haruki Murakami
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…
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Sutler by richard House
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The artist by lucy steeds
This book fits neatly into the genre of ‘artist as monster’ if there is such a genre and I seem to have read several recently.…
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The Cost of living by deborah levy
I love Levy’s autobiography so much and it is strange that it I do not take to her fictional writing at all. What makes what…
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Smoke and embers by john Lawton
John Lawton specialises in taking historical events and using them as a support for his writing with his Troy series focusing during and after WWII,…
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The Books of jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
I think this is probably the biggest book I have ever read at 893 pages telling the true story of Jacob Frank, a jew in…
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Ahhh. The comfort of a well-known and liked series. Sam Wyndham and Surendranath Banerjee, English and Indian, solving a despicable crime in the case of…
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I tried, I really, really did. I so wanted to read this book but in the end had to admit defeat. It isn’t the plot…
Trying to read all the good books 