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We Are At War Garfield, Simon
This collection of diary entries were all submitted to the Mass Observation archive in the UK. I had never heard of the MO until I picked up this book. I suppose it was a sort of Big Brother of ...
The White Tiger Adiga, Aravind
The trouble with reading a book that has just won the Booker Prize is that it is impossible to start reading it without certain expectations. To have won such a prestigious award the book must ...
Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel
Some time around the beginning of the eighteenth century, story-telling changed. It didn’t happen all at once – these things rarely do – but steadily and irrevocably narrative poems and ...
Cross Channel Barnes, Julian
Like many readers, I first discovered Julian Barnes through his inspired third book, Flaubert's Parrot , but have found it hard not to feel that his more recent novels have failed to live up to ...
Alias Grace Atwood, Margaret
Alias Grace is based on the true story of the murders of a gentleman and his housekeeper in 1843 by two of their servants, James McDermott and Grace Marks. The case caused a public sensation at ...
Jürg Jenatsch Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand
Jürg Jenatsch (1596-1639) is a historical figure. He was a reformed pastor who became a freedom fighter in the battle for independence in the Grisons (Graubünden) during the Thirty Years’ War. ...
