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Not Speaking

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Queen of the Wits: A Life o...

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Dr. Johnson's Women

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Brothers of the Quill: Oliv...

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The Rise and Fall of the Wo...

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Ambitious Heights: Writing,...

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Theo's Time

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Trouble on the Day

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Patrick and the Rotten Roma...

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Time to get writing

I can't believe I've had this blog post-opportunity ready-made and haven't posted anything - and all the time I've been thinking something on the lines of, 'Maybe I should set up a blog'.

I'm going to use it to think about books I'm reading, or want to read, or have read. And to start with: Henry Miller, 'The Colossus of Maroussi'. I came on this book whilst doing a dust and cull in the upstairs s Read more of this blog post »
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Completely engrossing. I was looking for a novel I could be immersed in and this was it. It's the sort of novel you don't want to finish, and the cleverly managed time shifts somehow suggest you might never have to - there is, after all, so much to s ...more
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