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Books I reviewed in March (and some I didn’t)

OK, so it’s well late for this, but I been busy, OK? Here are the books I reviewed in March, a mixed bag, to be sure. Lisa O’Donnell, The Death of Bees (William Heinemann) – Reviewed for The Scotsman. A … Continue reading

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(Not) lost in translation – Nesbo v Knausgaard

OK, so I recently reviewed the new Jo Nesbo book, Phantom, for The Independent on Sunday. You can read that review here. The basic gist was that the guy can do plot, but some of the line-by-line prose was truly … Continue reading

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