Monday, 18 August 2025

Einstein's Monsters - Martin Amis (1987)

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  Rating: Admirable Martin Amis is not known for his short stories, with only two collections published in his lifetime, Einstein's Mons...
Saturday, 2 August 2025

Show Don't Tell - Curtis Sittenfeld (2025)

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  Rating: Admirable Curtis Sittenfeld has a great reputation for her dark wit, sardonic humour and putting a contemporary spin on old proble...
Saturday, 12 July 2025

Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene (1958)

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  Rating: Excellent Graham Greene was a prolific writer, with many significant novels to his name, such as Brighton Rock (1938) , The Quiet ...
Monday, 2 June 2025

Our Evenings - Alan Hollinghurst (2024)

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  Rating: Excellent Another book club read, the second by Alan Hollinghurst, with the first being The Stranger's Child (2011) , which wa...
Friday, 16 May 2025

Dark Magus: The Jekyll and Hyde Life of Miles Davis - Gregory Davis and Les Sussman (2006)

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Rating: Mediocre I absolutely love jazz, but I'm the first to admit that it is not for everyone. I've always advised the jazz novice...
Saturday, 10 May 2025

The Granddaughter - Bernhard Schlink (2024)

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  Rating: Admirable Bernhard Schlink’s renown outside of Germany is based mostly on The Reader (1995) , which is considered to be one of the...
Sunday, 20 April 2025

Money: A Suicide Note - Martin Amis (1984)

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  Rating: Sublime Money is acknowledged as the beginning of a run of brilliant Amis novels that represents his imperial period, that contin...