Jane Is The One

"You talk a load of crap, carrot top" (Anonymous) "consistently good and sometimes bonkers!" (Tony Jones) "You obviously pi$$ people off a lot" "One Dangerous Lady" (Anonymous) "Clearly a very unpleasant person" (Grace Nicholas, Cornwall)

Thursday, 22 March 2018

W.G. Sebald, 'Austerlitz'

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I picked up The Rings of Saturn more than 10 years ago, having never heard of Sebald, and now I come to this. A work of genius. A meditation...

Sunday, 18 March 2018

Steven Pinker, 'The Language Instinct'

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My Goodreads review: Comrades, this book made me a Chomskyite. No, no, no, not politically, OBVS, but linguistically. I read Chomsky many ...

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Wednesday, 21 February 2018

Phantom Thread

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Allegedly based on the fashion designer Cristobal Balenciaga, this is the story of a fashion designer in 1950s London (Daniel Day-Lewis, in ...

Tuesday, 20 February 2018

Jane Is The One: Seven people or things that changed my life (3) Sandra Tooman

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Jane Is The One: Seven people or things that changed my life (3) Sandra Tooman

woman for the West

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Reading West will need to select a Labour candidate soon. It will have to be a woman, to the chagrin of the Central Committee. In recent yea...

Thursday, 4 January 2018

Maggie O'Farrell, 'I Am, I Am, I Am'

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This is an account of Maggie O’Farrell’s 17 brushes with death, her own and those of her children. Some of them would be seen that w...

Tuesday, 2 January 2018

Maggie O'Farrell, 'This Must Be The Place': a gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover

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This is an accomplished work, and is the story of a man, Daniel Sullivan, a New Yorker who is a linguistics professor living in the wilds o...

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