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Sample Saturday: 3 Doorstep Novels

March 28, 2020March 28, 2020 BookerTalk 26 Comments Australian authors, British authors, Christos Tsiolkas, Joel Dicker, Lawrence Durrell, Sample Saturday, Swiss authors, TBR

My Sample Saturday spotlight this week is turned on three of the chunkiest books on my TBR shelves. As a

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All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West: Review

October 25, 2019October 12, 2020 BookerTalk 27 Comments Book Reviews, British authors, Vita Sackville-West

All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West How can I even begin to do justice to a novel so beautiful, elegant and thoughtful as All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West? This is a novel which confounds the stereotypical portrayals of older people often found in literature. I’m sure you’ve come across them. There’s the senile grandparent […]

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