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249. Nick Davies - Hack Attack
This is the book by the Guardian journalist about the phone hacking at the News of the World. It is also (as part and parcel of the...
Sep 25, 20141 min read


232. Lawrence Durrell - Clea
The last of the Alexandria quartet and also the last book on my list for 2014. I enjoyed this enormously; it was dense and difficult but...
Aug 7, 20141 min read


217. Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit
One of the summer plans! Thought I’d take (to Spain) a Dickens that I didn’t know at all, never televised, so no baggage. Not sure what...
Jun 11, 20141 min read


172. Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Idiot
This was a challenge; I can’t say I enjoyed it at all. Seemed to be very unstructured and unfocussed; I couldn’t work up any enthusiasm...
Dec 30, 20131 min read


170. Colin Dexter - Death Is Now My Neighbour
Haven’t read a Morse book for years. Dexter does write vigorous, wordy as you would expect, prose, and it is a fast page-turner of a...
Dec 15, 20131 min read


77. Bruce Duffy - The World As I Found It
A huge book, mainly I guess a fictionalised (although this seems controversial among the critics) biography of Wittgenstein. Pretty...
Feb 9, 20131 min read


62. Val McDermid - Killing The Shadows
I must have read this before in Crete (the bookmark gave it away) but could remember nothing about it. About a serial killer who targets...
Dec 3, 20121 min read


32. Charles Dickens - A Tale Of Two Cities
I normally hate Dickens and bought this on my Kindle just to show my dad that you can get an out of copyright book for free. Thought I...
Aug 10, 20121 min read