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If you read the Wikipedia page for Giovanni's Room you'll see that there is a reference to it appearing on a list of "100 bes...

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. David is an American in Paris in the 1950s, just mooching around doing not very much, and with no ap...

The Red Queen by Matt Ridley.  Subtitled Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature , this is a book primarily concerned with *checks notes* se...

A couple of follow-ups (follows-up, if you must) to the Lost Man's River review: firstly I alluded to it having taken quite a long time...

Lost Man's River by Peter Matthiessen. We're back in Florida. Not this guy , but instead the south-easternmost state of the USA, da...

There's something that's been bothering me for a while, and I think it's probably time to give it an airing here. There's no...

I tweeted a photo of my bookshelves the other day, after doing the painstaking up-shuffling of everything to incorporate the various books ...

Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban. William G. (not this guy , just to be clear) is a quiet unassuming type of guy; lives alone in a flat in a s...

Following on from my complaints (reasonable I think) about printing and/or binding errors in previous books on this list - Bluesman , Lolita...

A Question Of Upbringing by Anthony Powell. Ah, schooldays. It doesn't take much for one's mind to be cast back there: the endless ...

Staying On by Paul Scott. It's the early 1970s, pretty nearly a full quarter of a century after Indian independence and the end of col...