Wendy Cope’s writing space Bloody Men by Wendy Cope Bloody men are like bloody buses —You wait for about a yearAnd as soon as one approaches your stopTwo or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators,Offering you a ride.You’re trying to read the destinations,You haven’t much time to decide. If you make […]
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by Ian Rankin (Orion) ISBN: 9780752889542 I am a dedicated Ian Rankin fan. In the past some may have called me a groupie. Anyway… Rankin is a master of the craft of crime fiction writing. He understands how to create detectives and criminals. He knows how to make settings come alive and become characters in
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E.L. Doctorow was born 6 January 1931 and died 21 July 2015.
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by Pat Cavendish O’Neill (Jonathan Ball) ISBN 9781868424856 I so enjoyed the author’s A Lion in the Bedroom that I grabbed this copy knowing I would be highly entertained. I wasn’t wrong. The animals and her relationship with them fascinated me. But the book began to wind down when she started on horse racing. I know nothing about
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by John Boyne (Doubleday) ISBN 978-0-857-53146-9 John Boyne’s third novel for young readers has been listed for the Irish Book Award: Children’s Book of the Year and the Carnegie Medal 2013. It tells the story of Barnaby Brocket, born in Sydney “the Most Magnificent City in the World”, to parents who above all else need their
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