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Book Review

This book review page collects all the blog posts I have categorised as book reviews.

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From Reality to Espedair Street – a reading diary

8 October, 202110 October, 2018

From Reality to Espedair Street – a reading diary covering the period from mid-August to the end of September 2018: 4 titles reviewed, 4 more touched on.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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Somebody faraway nearby that I used to know

1 October, 202117 September, 2018

A book review of The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit and Somebody That I Used to Know by Wendy Mitchell, two books read in parallel.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reviews
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From Dunstan to Apex – a reading diary entry

6 December, 202115 August, 2018

From Dunstan to Apex – a reading diary entry with reviews of six or seven novels (depending how you count) and links to a half-a-dozen more.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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Factfulness – things are better than you think – a book review

6 November, 20216 August, 2018

Factfulness: Ten reasons we’re wrong about the world – and why things are better than you think – an uplifting book in depressing times

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reviews
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Dunstan by Conn Iggulden – a review

17 September, 201923 July, 2018

Dunstan (2017) by Conn Iggulden, a review of the historical novel and some ruminating on the the workings of the creative imagination.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reviews
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I am reading The Lucky Galah and Händelser vid Vattnet

17 September, 201916 July, 2018

I am reading The Lucky Galah by Tracy Sorensen and Kerstin Ekman’s Händelser vid Vattnet. More on the joys of reading two very different books in tandem.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews

Reading on the rails – a reading diary entry

17 June, 202020 June, 2018

Reading on the rails – a reading diary entry with reviews of 3 novels and links to half-a-dozen more. Also more train references than anyone really needs.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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Burning Angels by Bear Grylls – a review

17 September, 201913 June, 2018

The last, long weekend in April I spent quite a lot of my reading time in the company of Bear Grylls and his adventure novel Burning Angels. Oh dear.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reviews
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White Trash by Nancy Isenberg – a book review

17 September, 201930 May, 2018

A review of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg which I read with great interest earlier in the month.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reviews
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From Putin to Martin in 13 stages – a reading quarter

17 September, 20195 April, 2017

My quarterly reading round-up – all the books I’ve read in the first quarter of 2017 from Putin via Patti Smith and Jonas Hassan Khemiri to George RR Martin.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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Childhood, the latest edition of The Poet magazine, includes two of my poems
Far Flung: An anthology of stories, articles and poems - published in November 2020 - includes two of my short stories and a poem.

You may also like to read my blog post about Far Flung and about my writers group.

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