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Mohsin Hamid: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013)
Edition: Penguin, 2014Review number: 1496This is Mohsin Hamid's third novel, after The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which I still think is the best novel to portray the aftermath of the 9/11 bombings, and...
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David Mitchell: The Bone Clocks (2014)
Edition: Sceptre, 2014Review number: 1497The Bone Clockstells the story of the life of Holly Sykes, from her teenage years in Gravesend in the 1980s through to the mid twenty first century. This...
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John le Carré: A Delicate Truth (2013)
Edition: Viking, 2013Review number: 1498It's a while since I last read a John le Carré novel, and I picked this up in the local library a little reluctantly, because I felt that his world was often too...
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Toby Litt: Journey Into Space (2009)
Edition: Penguin, 2009Review number: 1499Warning: this review is going to contain lots of spoilers, without which it would be hard to say what I want to say about it. Please don't read if you don't...
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Michael Moorcock: The Whispering Swarm (2015)
Edition: Gollancz, 2015Review number:1500Are there any literary devices which have not been attempted in novels, by 2015? The Whispering Swarm certainly attempts one which I have never seen before.Many...
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Patricia A. McKillip: The Throme of the Erril of Sherill (1973)
Edition: Tempo, 1984Review number:1501Unusual, poetic fantasy - the first Patricia A. McKillip which I have read, after many recommendations of her as a fantasy author.This edition also includes The...
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Jo Walton: Among Others (2011)
Edition: Tor (2011)Review number: 1502Diary of a lonely teenager? Misfit at boarding school? Both form and setting of Among Others may seem to have been done until there is nothing new which could be...
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EXO Books: The Last Day of Captain Lincoln (2015)
Edition: Kindle, 2015Review number: 1503The title of this novel is a good summary of its content, if not its purpose. Captain Lincoln is a retired captain of a generation ship, on which a carefully...
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Patrick Dennis: Auntie Mame (1955)
Edition: Pan, 1958Review number: 1504I'm a big fan of Patrick Dennis, although the difficulty of finding his books nowadays means I haven't read all that many of them - three out of sixteen (all...
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Alexander Broadie: Introduction to Medieval Logic (1993)
Edition: Oxford University Press, 1993Review number: 1505The title is perhaps somewhat misleading. I would expect that a book introducing medieval logic should be fairly easy to follow for someone like...
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Michael Spivak: Calculus (1967)
Edition: Addison-Wesley (World Student Series)Review number: 1506Calculus was the very first textbook I read for my university degree. As well as being a fine description of the basics of analysis...
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Marc Bloch: Feudal Society (1940)
Translation: L.A. Manyon, 1962Edition: Routledge Kegan Paul, 2014Review number: 1507The foreword to this Routledge Classics edition, by Geoffrey Kozol, starts by asking, "Why read a work of history...
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Iain Pears: Arcadia (2015)
Edition: Faber & Faber, 2016Review number: 1508Iain Pears' 2015 novel may seem to be something of a departure from his earlier work - if I'd been asked to read it blind and guess the author, I...
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G.K. Holloway: 1066 (2014)
Edition: Troubadour, 2014Review number: 1509What book could be more appropriate to review on 14th October, the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings! 1066 is clearly the defining date in British...
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Paul Beatty: The Sell Out (2015)
Edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2015)Review number: 1510The Sell Out is a novel which divides opinion. If you look at online reviews, ones which give it very high ratings are common, but so are...
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Jonathan Sumption: Cursed Kings: The Hundred Years War IV (2015)
Edition: Faber & Faber, 2016Review number: 1511The fourth volume of Sumption's brilliant history of the Hundred Years' War is up to the standard he set in the earlier books, and very similar in...
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Ernest Cline: Armada (2015)
Edition: Century, 2015Review number: 1512Ernest Cline's first novel, Ready Player One, was one of my top reads of 2018, when I finally read it. Even though I am not a gamer, I was introduced to...
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Matt Ridley: The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge (2015)
Edition: Harper Collins, 2015Review number: 1513While there are many interesting ideas, points and quotes in this book, I found it frustrating and unconvincing. While it is apparently about how...
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Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice (2013)
Edition: Orbit, 2013Review number: 1514Back in 2013/4, Ancillary Justice won just about every award going in the science fiction genre: Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke, BSFA. It's the only novel to have...
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Leslie Charteris: The Saint and the People Importers (1971)
Edition: Thomas & Mercer, 2014Review number: 1515In recent years, the news has been full of refugees; immigration, legal and illegal, is seen as a problem by many. But people have been concerned...
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Leslie Charteris: The Saint in Trouble (1978)
Edition: Coronet Books, 1978Review number: 1516Another compilation of stories which originally were TV episodes of Return of the Saint, The Saint in Trouble comprises The Imprudent Professor (by...
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Leslie Charteris: The Saint and the Templar Treasure (1978)
Edition: Coronet, 1978Review number: 1517Another late Saint novel, written by Donne Avenell and Graham Weaver in the days when Leslie Charteris was editing new entries in the series rather than writing...
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Leslie Charteris: Count on the Saint (1980)
Edition: Coronet, 1980Review number: 1518According to the saint.org website, this is by uncredited (as far as I can see) writers Graham Weaver and Donne Avenell - the same as the previous Saint book,...
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Leslie Charteris: Salvage for the Saint (1983)
Edition: Thomas & Mercer, 2014Review number: 1519After almost forty years, this is the final Saint book which I am reading for the first time, as well as being the last one published (aside from...
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фANTASTIKA: Almanac for Bulgarian Speculative Fiction
Edition: Terra Fantasia (Association of Bulgarian SF & F Writers and Artists), 2020Review number: 1520This is an extensive collection, a showcase of Bulgarian science fiction and fantasy, including...
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