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| | | | | Oliver VII by Antal Szerb (1942) French title: Oliver VII Translated by Chantal Philippe. Oliver VII is my third Antal Szerb after Journey by Moonlight and The Pendragon Legend. We're in Alturia, a fictional country in Eastern Europe, a place that belongs to the former Austro-Hungarian empire. It's the kingdom of Oliver VII, a twenty-four-years... | |
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| | | | | Fiction - paperback; Flamingo; 240 pages; 2003. This is one of those rare books that is almost impossible to review without quoting the whole novel from cover to cover. Pretty much every clipped and stripped back sentence in Paula Fox'sThe Widow's Children resonates with meaning and provides startling insights into the ways in which family... | |
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| | | | | Having acquired, via the wonders of online marketplaces, copies of all of Brian Moore's books recently - over half are out of print - I thought it was time to return to his 1955 debut, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne. It remains his most famous book, even though the over-explanatory title was added only... | |
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| | | While Cabin B-13 became the name of the series of radio plays written by John Dickson Carr, I'm using the Tuesday Night Bloggers' chosen topic of travel to look at the original play of that title which was broadcast on 9th November 1943 for the radio series Suspense (if you've 25 minutes to spare, you... | ||