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Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood and three other mini book reviews
Three mini reviews of the latest in my 20 books of summer
They by Kay Dick (UK)
Long out of print, rediscovered dystopian fiction
Middlemarch by George Eliot (UK)
I read Middlemarch. It took me three months.Don’t let that put you off.
In Youth is Pleasure by Denton Welch (UK)
Hallucinatory 1940s coming of age tell set in upper middle class England between the wars
Booker Longlist Predictions: How did I do? Plus Review of Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
Francis Spufford’s deeply humane new novel “Light Perpetual”
Review no 133: Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford (UK)
Francis Spufford’s deeply humane new novel “Light Perpetual”
Review no 73: Rebecca by British author Daphne du Maurier (1907-89)
Daphne Du Maurier’s classic gothic “love” story
Review no 48: The Personal History of David Copperfield, film by Armando Iannucci (UK)
We enjoyed this charming, family friendly Dickensian romp