Although this book was published over ten years ago, it is still worth reading.
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Quick look: A History of the Novel in Britain
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Because Hensher has read so many novels, the reader feels in safe hands.
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Quick look: G., by John Berger
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The funny thing about reading the first few pages of a book is that the outcome can sometimes be the opposite of what you’d expect.
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Quick look: About Looking, by John Berger
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This is a collection of essays or meditations on looking and seeing or, fundamentally, visibility.
Read MoreQuick look: Here is where we meet, by John Berger
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A strange sort of book, this. A mixture, it seems to me, of fiction and autobiography.
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Review: The Complete C Comics, by Joe Brainard & Bill Kartalopoulos
I have enjoyed reading the C Comics, especially the mock advertisements and the parodies of famous comic book characters like Nancy, Archie and Veronica.
Read MoreQuick look: Celtic Wonder Tales
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I am not familiar with Irish myths and tales, so this beautiful collection of stories is quite an eye-opener.
Read MoreQuick look: La Brava
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Before I read a book properly, especially if it has only just arrived, I like to get its measure. I look it up and down. Are its shoes polished?
Read MoreQuick look: Split Images
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I’ve just started reading this, and it has me gripped already. I like the fact that it doesn’t mess about: no long-winded descriptions…
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What we might call “natural” word of mouth is one thing — it has served me very well — but can we provide a helping hand?
Read MoreReview: Hard Rain Falling
This is a very compelling book to read, but to describe it as noir fiction is almost an understatement.
Read MoreQuick look: Howl: Selected Poems by Allen Ginsberg
These poems benefit from being read aloud, even if only to yourself.
Read MoreReview: The Wisdom of Charlotte Brontë: Thoughts Gathered from Her Novels -- two reviews in one!
Below you will find two versions of a book review. The first is the one I submitted to the editor of Teach Secondary magazine, while the second is the version he actually published.
Read MoreReview: The shortest history of AI -- two reviews in one!
Below you will find two versions of a book review. The first is the one I submitted to the editor of Teach Secondary magazine, while the second is the version he actually published.
Read MoreReview: Ways of Telling -- three reviews in one!
Three reviews of the same book: a straight version, an outlandish version and the published version.
Read MoreReview: Magic and Mechanics -- two reviews in one!
After each story there is an interview with its author.
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Review: Accustomed as I am...
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As the title suggests, it’s about Basil Boothroyd’s (mis) adventures as a public speaker. In an anecdote I found particularly amusing …
Read MoreReview: The Mathematician's Library - two reviews in one!
This wide-ranging book takes in probability, fractals, astronomy, Babbage, Lovelace, and a host of other areas and people.
Read MoreReview: Hotel Exile -- two reviews in one!
You settle down to read, and the subject of this particular vignette could be you: a teacher, a student, a mother, a brother.
Read MoreReview: Weimar -- two reviews in one!
Weimar, the birthplace of the optimistic but short-lived republic of the same name, a place called “home” by Goethe, Liszt and Nietzsche and a mere eight kilometres from Buchenwald.
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