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And the Women's Prize longlist:

February, 2025 Book 9: Nicola Barker - Darkmans (2007) I spent a hefty chunk of the month with this 850pp monster but it was most definitely worth it. It's a book that I'm not sure I have anything to compare it with. There's a whole lot of strange happening amongst the mundane lives of the...

RIP Gene Hackman. What a legend. He and his wife found dead. How sad.

International Booker Longlist just announced for anyone interested:

Brighton Rock is really good and has one of the meanest antagonists I’ve read. Because it could just as easily be a modern gangster story, it can seem a bit dated at times and Greene’s return to Catholic guilt is a bit bewildering if you weren’t brought up under such a regime. Good and quick...

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Unless you already have it, don't miss Don Cherry's Orient, it's a gorgeous album and well overdue a reissue.

January, 2025 Book 1: Patricia Highsmith - Ripley Under Water (1991) Capping my four year tradition of starting the year with the continuation of the Ripliad series with this fifth and final instalment. Despite generally lacklustre reviews at publication, I found it really entertaining. The...

I didn’t buy much last year so was worried I’d missed it too. Couldn’t see a Discogs entry so assuming not but hoping it will eventually happen.

I read the two novels you mentioned in the past few years and loved them both. I’ve got Hangsaman in my folder for this year. Might have to grab some of her shorter works too, this sounds great.

Does anyone know if this got pushed back/cancelled completely?

There's a promo version already on discogs complete with KPG runouts and code ARTISAN 6. Looks nice. I only have the first Byrd one and they do a good job for sure. These details are in the notes: 180g 12’’ LP Limited edition of 500 copies, hand-numbered. Mastered from the original mono...

December 2024 Book 74: Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby Man alive, this was a tough read. Really long, really bloated, premised on a character who decides to shit on his nephew, niece and sister-in-law following his brother's death for no apparent reason other than to be a prick. The...

The only one I have sounded fine after a good clean but it really did need that good clean.

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Yeah, similar really. We're a bit lucky over here though in that you can build a mammoth library of really great books, classics and contemporary, on 99p monthly and daily deals. I've got more than I'll ever get through and still find myself buying them but it has to be something really...

November 2024 Cracking month, some real belters. Book 66: Delia Owens - Where the Crawdads Sing Mrs Moore recommended the movie and Mr Moore Snr recommended the book so, I finally got around to it and I loved it. The sad life of a marsh girl in North Carolina faces a family that deserts her...

New Muriel Grossmann coming. https://www.rrgemsrecords.com/product/pre-order-muriel-grossmann-the-light-of-the-mind-rrgems18

I picked this up on a Kindle 99p daily deal a few days back. Looking forward to it, it's had great reviews. If you get a taste for the place and period and you haven't read it already, I can't recommend Milkman enough. It's a fiction but with The Troubles as the backdrop and Burns captures...