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Average rating: 4.71 · 21 ratings · 13 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Final Approach: My Father and Other Turbulence 4.71 avg rating — 21 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brian The Flying Bear! The Long Journey Home by Mark Blackburn (Goodreads Author), Alice Jowitt (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Mark Blackburn rated a book it was amazing The Other Way by Victoria L Humphreys	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This book is certainly harrowing – I was considering the working title ‘War and Pieces’ for the review. ‘Pieces’ literal and figurative - fragmented bodies and fragmented lives, and the play on War and Peace because this book has an epic scale, cover ...more
Apr 02, 2026 03:03AM · 1 like · like · see review
Mark Blackburn is now following Victoria L Humphreys Author of Not the Work of an Ordinary Boy
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Mark Blackburn rated a book it was amazing The Approval of Sheep: The heartwarming, laugh-out-loud debut inspired by a real London sheep covenant by Karen Storey (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Karen Storey’s book The Approval of Sheep is a delightful comedy of modern manners with an intensifying whiff of romance infusing the pages. I really enjoyed this book. I don’t often chuckle when I’m reading, I’m more of a ‘wry smile’ kind of reader, ...more
Mar 02, 2026 02:17AM · like · see review
Mark Blackburn rated a book it was amazing Broken Horses by Kate Beales	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Within pages of starting this book, I was put in mind of Daphne du Maurier. A coastal landscape, high drama, budding romance and a strong female protagonist. Only the coastal landscape is the edge of the Patagonian plain rather than the coves of Corn ...more
Feb 01, 2026 12:04PM · like · see review
Mark Blackburn rated a book it was amazing Things Don't Break on Their Own by Sarah Easter Collins	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This novel surprises. Again and again. Reading the first chapter, Supper with friends, I thought I was in for a Sally Rooney-esque comedy of modern manners. But oh no. We’re quickly drawn back into the past, a shadowy and often cruel past, which then ...more
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Mark Blackburn rated a book it was amazing Let the Game Commence by David Palin (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Let The Game Commence Disclaimer: I know David. We met at a book fair near my parental home and immediately hit it off; we’ve continued our friendship online since. So when David read and reviewed my book Final Approach, it was only right that I should ...more
Aug 15, 2025 07:26AM · like · see review
Mark Blackburn rated a book it was amazing There's No Business Like International Business: Business Travel – But Not As You Know It by Oliver Dowson (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Ostensibly a single work, There’s No Business… is more two different books in one volume. Though both could be described as memoir, the two parts are quite different – the first being a traditional travelogue and the second more the tale of the relat ...more
Dec 09, 2024 08:44AM · like · see review