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972. Elif Shafak - The Island Of Missing Trees
This is a wonderful book. Set mainly in Cyprus in the mid-1970s when the country was ripped apart by the Greek/Cypriot civil war, it...
May 5, 20221 min read


884. Jodie Chapman - Another Life
This was very good, but I would have enjoyed it more if it had been written in a linear narrative, rather than with all the time shifts,...
Aug 14, 20211 min read


187. Honoré de Balzac - Eugenie Grandet
A proper story at last. I hadn’t realised how early in the 19th century Balzac was writing; 1820’s/30’s. So there is lots of classicism,...
Mar 9, 20141 min read


171. George Eliot - The Mill On The Floss
This was an A-level set text, and I read my old copy from the time, which is almost ruined by asinine adolescent observations. I will get...
Dec 22, 20131 min read


16. David Nicholls - One Day
Holiday book swap with P. Didn't like this at first but it grew on me. One day is Whitsun day annually and it covers the fortunes of a...
Jun 8, 20121 min read