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Tuesday, 5 August 2025
"No More Parades", Book 2 in "Parade's End" by Ford Madox Ford - audiobook review
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This second book in the Parade's End series takes place behind the frontlines during the First World War. Again the pace is languorous ...
Friday, 25 July 2025
"A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Letters and Diaries" by Barbara Pym, edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym - book review
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As the subtitle suggests, this is an autobiography of Barbara Pym made up of her diaries, letters, and notebooks. I wanted to read this firs...
Friday, 11 July 2025
"Some Do Not…", Book 1 in "Parade's End" by Ford Madox Ford - audiobook review
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The first book in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy, beautifully narrated in this audiobook version by Bill Nighy (He Do the...
Thursday, 10 July 2025
"Quartet in Autumn" by Barbara Pym - book review
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Barbara Pym was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for this book in 1977, which was eventually awarded to Staying On by Paul Scott (which I ...
Friday, 4 July 2025
"An Unsuitable Attachment" by Barbara Pym - book review
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This was the book that was rejected by Pym's publisher and caused the hiatus in her publishing career. It may have been old-fashioned in...
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