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433. Chad Kultgen - The Lie
Pretty good and totally different. Full of pretty lurid sex which however becomes just a motif. Quite like an 18th century novel about...
Sep 28, 20161 min read


315. Émile Zola - The Fortune Of The Rougons
The first in the huge cycle of novels about this family and their antecedents. Thematically, this is the end of republicanism and...
Jun 17, 20151 min read


235. Joseph Conrad - Nostromo
Not sure what pointed me in this direction; maybe a surfeit of detective novels. I had read this may years before (bought my copy in...
Aug 17, 20141 min read


121. Peter Robinson - All The Colours Of Darkness
Wanted to re-read this as it precedes no.114 above and i had forgotten bits of the plot, which is Othello transposed into a gay...
Jun 20, 20131 min read