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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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Dear Reader by Cathy Rentzenbrink
I think I must be Rentzenbrink’s reading doppelganger specifically up to the point in her life when she started to work in a bookshop. We,…
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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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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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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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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…
Trying to read all the good books 