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Reading from the sick bed

May 8, 2019July 4, 2019 Edward Colley 8 Comments Evelyn Waugh, Kazuo Ishiguro, Raymond Chandler, Thomas Hardy

Sickness, recovery, recuperation. At such times what sort of reading material do you reach for? The question arose for me

American authors Crime and thrillers

Revisiting the king of legal thrillers

March 16, 2019March 15, 2019 Edward Colley 13 Comments John Grisham, Legal thrillers

With no reading material before a long flight I picked up a John Grisham potboiler in the San Francisco airport

Book Reviews British authors

Kingsley Amis in virgin territory

February 22, 2019 Edward Colley 18 Comments Angry Young Men, Kingsley Amis

According to the Wikipedia notes on Take a Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis, the author takes great care to

Biographies and autobiographies Book Reviews Non fiction

Life by Keith Richards #book review

February 16, 2019February 15, 2019 Edward Colley 4 Comments Autobiography, Keith Richards, rock memoirs, Rolling Stones

I lead a gentleman’s life. Listen to Mozart, read many, many books. I’m a voracious reader. History, in particular the

In a Free State by V S Naipaul #Bookreview

January 16, 2019January 18, 2019 Edward Colley 9 Comments Booker prize, V. S Naipaul

V S Naipaul’s In a Free State, which won the Booker prize in 1971, is set in an unnamed African

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