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Theory of War by Joan Brady

15/02/2019

“A war between two people is not all that different from a war between two countries.” My paternal grandfather, William Smith, was killed in action in World War I.  Not long afterwards his wife died of ‘grief’ (malnutrition and exhaustion, in my mother’s view) and their five children were put into homes run by Dr … More Theory of War by Joan Brady

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The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth

22/12/2017

  The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: The Merchant of Venice, Act 4 Scene 1   At the time of writing I’m not long back from Stratford-upon-Avon and a … More The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth

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  • To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  • American Pastoral by Philip Roth
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  • Orbital by Samantha Harvey
  • Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey through Britain by Roger Deakin
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  • Regarding Agnes….I did it!
  • The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge
  • Orlando by Virginia Woolf
  • Goodbye 2024, Welcome 2025!
  • The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
  • Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck (translated by Michael Hofmann)
  • Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
  • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • The Rotters’ Club by Jonathan Coe
  • Middle England by Jonathan Coe
  • Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
  • Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
  • The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
  • Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy
  • Unsettled Ground by Clare Fuller
  • The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
  • 2024 and all that!
  • Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
  • The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
  • The Iliad by Homer
  • Travels with Maurice: An Outrageous Adventure in Europe, 1968 by Gary Orleck
  • The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler
  • Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
  • English Journey or the Road to Milton Keynes by Beryl Bainbridge
  • The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
  • Continent by Jim Crace
  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  • Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree
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