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Books, books and still more books!

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Book Reviews Literature Psychoanalysis

The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick

I have long wanted to try something by Vivian Gornick, the American writer and critic who started her career at the Village Voice in the late 1960s. Since then, Gornick’s work has appeared in various publications, including the New York Times, the Atlantic and the New York Review of Books, while in 2019, the New […]

The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick
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Book Reviews German Matters Literature

Worth a quick read, I thought

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Book Reviews Literature

Also available as a DVD

Confusion (1993, The Cazalet Chronicles #3), by Elizabeth Jane Howard
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Book Reviews Classics Literature

Steamships in the Postmodern

The Lagoon (1897), Typhoon (1902), and The Secret Sharer (1910), by Joseph Conrad
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Book Reviews Literature Psychoanalysis

A delightful introduction to Elizabeth Bowen

Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
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Book Reviews

Haunted Echoes

Book Review: The Echoes by Evie Wyld
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Book Reviews German Matters Literature

Der Vorleser

Book Review: The Reader (Der Vorleser) by Bernard Schlink (Germany)
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Book Reviews German Matters

The issues beneath the surface in Foyle’s War

The Real History Behind Foyle’s War (2006), by Rod Green
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Book Reviews Poetry West Cornwall (and local history)

A Performance Poet and A Real Gent

Book Review: The Bus Drivers of Penzance