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Sep 2, 2025

At first glance, this book's table of contents seems puzzling. Despite running to nearly 500 pages, Frank seems to be using fewer than 50 different novels to represent a hundred years of literary evolution — but appearances can be deceptive.

Sep 2, 2025

Aug 14, 2025

Quick look: Hard Rain Falling, by Don Carpenter -- Progress report

Aug 14, 2025

The style is plain and simple, and all the more powerful for that, and I like the sense of foreboding.

Aug 14, 2025

Quick look: Conversations with Third Reich Contemporaries

Aug 14, 2025

Context is given regarding the manner in which the interviews were conducted, and there is a great deal of nuance regarding the concept of “bystanders” vs “perpetrators”.

Aug 14, 2025

Jul 30, 2025

The electrophone? The Gecophone?

Jul 30, 2025

Although I’ve been writing for donkeys’ years, I’ve never written anything for radio.

Jul 30, 2025

Jul 9, 2025

Quick look: The many lives of Anne Frank

Jul 9, 2025

The structure of this book is very interesting.

Jul 9, 2025

Jul 8, 2025

Quick look: Hard Rain Falling, by Don Carpenter

Jul 8, 2025

The style is plain and simple, and all the more powerful for that.

Jul 8, 2025

Jun 26, 2025

Compare and contrast: A Town Without Time reviewed

Jun 26, 2025

The book includes the obituary writer who can hardly wait for his subjects to drop dead so that he can at last see his work in print.

Jun 26, 2025

Compare and contrast: Pen Names reviewed

Jun 26, 2025

Once again I am presenting you with two very slightly different reviews of the same book.

Jun 26, 2025

Compare and contrast: The Library of Ancient Wisdom reviewed

Jun 26, 2025

Once again I am presenting you with two different reviews of the same book.

Jun 26, 2025

Compare and contrast: Adaptable reviewed

Jun 26, 2025

Once again I am presenting you with two very slightly different reviews of the same book. The first is the review I sent in to the editor of Teach Secondary magazine. The second is what was actually published.

Jun 26, 2025

Book review round-up to August 2019

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