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This year’s winner of the Man Booker Prize is a startling and engrossing read. It’s astonishing that it’s George Saunders first novel. I haven’t read his short stories, though he was on my radar as a hugely skilled writer and … Continue reading
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Historical fiction being de rigeur right now – a review of two plaudit-laden historical novels, The Essex Serpent and The Girl in the Glass Tower, both published recently and both by women writers. First, Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent (Serpents … Continue reading
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The first chapter of Peter Ackroyd’s London Under is entitled Darkness Visible and it begins ‘Tread carefully over the pavements of London for you are treading on skin, a skein of stone that covers rivers and labyrinths, tunnels and chambers, streams … Continue reading
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I promised that I would not blog about the weather – climate change or spectacular climactic events, yes, ordinary weather, no ( see Storm Warning ). I am, however, thoroughly enjoying reading about the weather, or rather the impact it has … Continue reading
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The early twenty-first century seems to be a fertile time for writing about the world around us. There are best-selling psycho-geographers, flaneurs and flaneuses and writers about the natural world. The urban environment, especially London, attracts many of them. Examples … Continue reading
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