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| | | | | The Story of Classic Crime in 100 (plus 2) Books The challenge is to read and review all 102 of the books Martin Edwards includes on the main list in his excellent book on the development of the crime novel The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books. Yes, 102. Dont ask me why | |
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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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| | | 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... | ||
