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| | | | Athena is the final volume in John Banville's Frames trilogy, which comprises The Book of Evidenceand Ghosts. It follows the life and times of murderer Freddie Montgomery, who has now become an art expert charged with authenticating a series of Old Masters that are likely to be fake. | |
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| | | | I have loads of favourite authors, but here are a handful of my favourites. Some of them I've known for ages, others have been late discoveries. I plan to update this list as and when new-to-me authors make an impression. Please note, I have only included novels in this list and not short-story collections or... | |
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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... | |
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| | What an interesting book! It'sthe very clever and utterly absorbing story of seven rogue-adventurers, told in a picaresque way somewhat reminiscent of Candide(which I read a long, long time ago when I was at university).Making no apology for its scholarly allusions,it's a sort of philosophical travel novel which begins at the turn of the 18th... |