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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Book review: The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By - Georges Simenon

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  Having decided not to read the blurb on the back it took me a while to get into this story and brush aside my preconceptions. Based on the...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Book review: Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

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On one level this is a love story but on others it provokes thoughts about the differences between city and country, rich and poor, guest an...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Book review: American Affair the Americanisation of Britain by Susan Marling and Gerd Kittel

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  To find this book involved wading through a fair few listings for romantic or political books that wanted to cover their own types of spec...
Monday, February 05, 2024

Book review: How Do you Live? By Genzaburo Yoshino

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  After enjoying the Boy and the Heron there was an appetite to dive deeper and How Do You Live? was described as the inspiration for th...
Monday, January 29, 2024

Book review: Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto

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  My eldest son has consumed a large amount of Japanese literature in the last year and recommended I followed his example. After enjoying T...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Book review: Searching for John Hughes by Jason Diamond

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    Continuing the theme of the suburbs in many ways the chronicler of teenage life in the Northern area of Chicago was John Hughes. Fam...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Book review: The End of the Suburbs by Leigh Gallagher

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  A great companion read to Meet Me By The Fountain is the End of The Suburbs by Leigh Gallagher. It runs over a similar history talking o...
Wednesday, January 03, 2024

Book review: Meet me By The Fountain by Alexandra Lange

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  My interest in American malls is not simply a case of trying to recapture a few hours spent in various locations across the US on holidays...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

Book review: This is London by Ben Judah

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  “It’s like this: Russian and Ukrainian people hate Polish and Lithuanian people. Eastern Europe peoples hate Indian people. Everybody...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Book review: The Fall of the House of FIFA by David Conn

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“We who have loved football all our lives do not want to believe that those who run the game, on their manifestos of doing good, are...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Book review: Estuary Out from London to the Sea by Rachel Lichtenstein

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This book called out to me from the London section shelves at Camden Lock Books and appealed because the Estuary is a part of London I ha...
Sunday, May 06, 2018

Book review: All the Devils Are Here by David Seabrook

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Every time I have an appointment at Moorfields for my eyes I like to pop into Camden Lock Books at Old Street tube station if I get the ...
Monday, November 14, 2016

Book review: Psychogeography by Merlin Coverley

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"Psychogeography: The study of specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions ...
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