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Average rating: 3.47 · 216 ratings · 55 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Books 3.18 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	The Space Between Things 3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2010 — 2 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
	I don't want to go to the Taj Mahal 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings — 2 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
	Stuff 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 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
	The State of Us 3.91 avg rating — 11 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
	Encounters with Everyday Madness (Shortlisted for Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2024) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2023	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
	Walking Backwards 4.50 avg rating — 2 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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Charlie Hill rated a book liked it Should We Fall Behind by Sharon Duggal (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
This novel features the stories of the lost and dispossessed. Each chapter focusses on one of its cast of characters. As such, its structure might be read as a comment on the atomisation of the world it describes. Also noteworthy is its tone. This ma ...more
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Charlie Hill wants to read Encounters with Everyday Madness (Shortlisted for Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2024) by Charlie Hill (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
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Charlie Hill rated a book it was amazing The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré	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
I was off to work the other day and, having just finished a piece of writing, needed something to read. At first I picked up The Atrocity Exhibition a book I'd been approaching as it's author suggested, on-and-off, non-sequentially. Trying to find ou ...more
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Charlie Hill rated a book really liked it Shame by Annie Ernaux (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
This is my first encounter with Annie Ernaux. It comes courtesy of two of my favourite things: an independent bookshop in Birmingham - Voce Books - and the aesthetically iconic Fitzcarraldo Editions. After suggesting 'we have no true memory of oursel ...more
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Charlie Hill made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — linking books to author page topic " annob wrote: "Hi, done. Both titles moved to your author profile. It can take the individual book pages a little time to display the change of author ...more "
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Charlie Hill rated a book really liked it Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin	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
I've been meaning to read this for years. I'd seen James Baldwin on Youtube and been mesmerised by his eloquence and charisma and this novel seemed a good place to start with his prose. It's some book. It begins by echoing the writing of Jean Rhys an ...more
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Charlie Hill rated a book really liked it They Are Trying to Break Your Heart by David Savill (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
When I was young, I worked with David Savill in a Waterstones in Birmingham city centre. Since then we've followed very different routes to the sort of critically-acclaimed near-obscurity familiar to writers who don't try to fit a mould and aren't ov ...more
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Charlie Hill rated a book really liked it Salt Concrete Fields (Salt Modern Stories). by David Gaffney	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
David Gaffney’s fiction has always managed to be dark without seeming forcedly so (he never reads as if he sets out to write in a way that might be regarded as ‘uncanny’ or unsettling, even though his work skirts and flirts with that both that genre ...more
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“Despite the promise of four days of sun and overly sweet wine, Richard was sporting a sour puss. But then that was to be expected - he sold books for a living, after all.”
― Charlie Hill, Books

tags: book-selling, books, booksellers, bookshops

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“The book looked doomed, assailed on all sides by those who'd see it superseded by the synthetic-new and those who didn't give two shiny ones. With the recession forging ahead with renewed vigour, bookselling too was going the way of papyrus, taking with it what was left of Richard's self-esteem, his beer money and his comedic persona.”
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“By all means," said Richard. "Let's talk about something other than books. Something safer. Like politics or religion.”
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