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The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald — a tragicomic gem about life

October 6, 2021October 6, 2021 BookerTalk 15 Comments British authors, Penelope Fitzgerald

I began watching the film version of The Bookshop with high expectations — a bookshop setting; a heroine who believes

The Happy Family by Jackie Kabler: beware the stranger on your doorstep

September 3, 2021September 17, 2021 BookerTalk 5 Comments British authors, psychological thrillers

I’m not a huge consumer of psychological crime novels or thrillers but I do turn to them whenever I need

The Hill Station by J G Farrell — hypocrisy of the Raj

August 27, 2021September 17, 2021 BookerTalk 12 Comments British authors, J G Farell

J. G Farrell had written about 50,000 words of a novel set in 1870s India when he died. He’d gone

The General by C S Forester is a portrait of a man whose actions sent thousands of soldiers to their deaths.

The General by C S Forester – a lifetime of duty

April 19, 2021April 27, 2021 BookerTalk 10 Comments British authors, C S Forester, World War 1

In the popular imagination, vast numbers of British infantry soldiers were sent needlessly to their deaths in World War 1

Sample Sunday: 3 Doorstep Novels

March 28, 2020January 24, 2021 BookerTalk 26 Comments Australian authors, British authors, Christos Tsiolkas, Joel Dicker, Lawrence Durrell, Swiss authors, TBR

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

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