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| | Fiction - paperback; Flamingo; 176 pages; 2003. First published in 1970, Paula Fox'sDesperate Characters has recently been "rediscovered" and much acclaimed by the literary elite (in the introduction to this edition, Jonathan Franzen says that when he first read the book in 1991 he "fell in love with it. It seemed to me obviously superior...
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| | Today it's time for a virtual cruise down the Moselle, possibly my favourite river in Germany. The reason ... Our dear God did not wish / that fine wine should go to waste. / Thus he gave not just the vine / also the requisite sense of taste. (Purists won't like that translation, but I...
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| | My TBR (To Be Read) stack of books has a system. I buy a book: it gets inserted on the left of the small library bookshelf on the bedroom floor. The next book I'm going to read is taken from the right. And the overflow is a pile on the floor (photographed here on the...
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| Fiction - paperback; Faber &Faber; 144 pages; 2014. In recent years, Deirdre Madden has becomeone of my favourite writers. She has 10 novels to her name, but I've only reviewed three of them - One by One in the Darkness(published in 1996), Molly Fox's Birthday(2008) and Time Present and Time Past(2013) - which means Ihave...