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December Agent Running in the Field     John Le Carré Interestingly he seems to be writing a corrective to Nick Herron’s Slough House series…also it seems to be about the agent runner being seduced....

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March The Splendid and the Vile        Erik Larson A terrific read.  About Winston Churchill in the dark days of 1940, replacing Chamberlain as Prime Minister with the country in imminent danger of...

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May Until the End of Time    Brian Greene I read this in a hurry as I was about to join him on The Infinite Monkey Cage, but now I find myself going back and dipping into some of the fascinating things...

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Summer Lockdown Reading. June, July, August.

August Trust Exercise               Susan Choi I thought this book had a magnificent opening.  The first chapters were clever and brilliant.  A fictional memoir of young actors at a Performing High...

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My favourite Book of the Year 2020 It seems obvious that lockdown has encouraged a thriller binge, reading for fun and escape, so it should be no surprise that my favourite book of the year is: Broken...

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2021 January thru March Sun King             David Ignatius An elegantly written, modern take on Gatsby.  A hedge fund billionaire attempts to buy his way into Washington and woo his dream girl....

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Summer Reading

Philip Roth.                            Blake Bailey. The Biography.  I wonder if the biography of a novelist is ever as interesting as his books.  I doubt it.  This one certainly isn’t and now I find...

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Current Reading

Frostquake           Juliet Nicolson I well remember the winter of 1963.  So bloody cold.  Snow till May. Inside Comedy               David Steinberg Me too. Henderson the Rain King        Saul Bellow...

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The Year so Far.  January thru May

I have to confess I haven’t written my reading blog for ages, though I have been reading. Of course.       I have been bingeing Patricia Highsmith.  She is quite wonderful.  I think what she gets is...

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Current Reading

Regeneration Pat Barker 1917 Siegfried Sassoon at Craiglockhart. What to do with one of theirs who protests the war. With Wilfred Owen. The Eye in the Door Pat Barker The next in the series. I don’t...

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