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The Other Elizabeth Taylor
According to this article in The Atlantic, Virago is re-issuing six novels by the underrated English novelist Elizabeth Taylor. Virago’s website isn’t working so I can’t say which six novels these are but evidently The Soul of Kindness, my favourite, is not one of them. A character that turns up often in Elizabeth Taylor is [...]
Posted: August 24th, 2008 under Books, Fiction, Uncategorized.
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Good luck, Beatles!
Mr Brett and I are spending the day cataloguing our mountain of rock music books. Quite by chance, we found this paragraph in a 1964 Penguin Paperback called “Love Me Do: The Beatles Progress” by Michael Braun. In the introduction, it has a quite bizarre quote from the Daily Mirror (which, the book says, has “the biggest circulation [...]
Posted: August 23rd, 2008 under Biography, Books, Music.
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Philip Roth, American Pastoral
Guest Post by Mikey Book Review: Philip Roth, American Pastoral, (London: Vintage, 1998) The tributes on the back of the British edition of Philip Roth’s American Pastoral that I have includes one from Tim Adams of the Observer who refers to the novel both as a “masterpiece” and “momentous.” Having recently read and enjoyed [...]
Posted: July 27th, 2008 under Books, Fiction, Review.
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