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Book review: Roseland, by Judy Finnigan

25th November 2024 Going Postal 0

Warning: contains spoilers Judy Finnigan, former doyenne of daytime tv, has – as many celebs these days do – reinvented herself as a best-selling novelist. And, to be fair, her previous two books weren’t bad: [more…]

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Book review: Erotic Vagrancy, by Roger Lewis

14th October 2024 Going Postal 0

What a title, eh? I was a bit uncertain as to whether to order it from the library or not, in case they started to wonder what I was up to. Happily they didn’t (or [more…]

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Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann

19th August 2024 Going Postal 0

The ‘Flower Moon’ is the term the Osage Indians of Oklahoma use to describe that time of year with a full moon in May when the plains around them suddenly burst forth in millions of [more…]

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Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

13th August 2024 Going Postal 0

Lucky Jim was (Sir) Kingsley Amis’s first novel published in 1954. It is the funniest novel that I have read I think, and contains many genuinely laugh out loud passages. Amis was inspired to write [more…]

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Book Review: The Shortest History of England

2nd August 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

‘The Shortest History of England’ by James Hawes is not too short and tops the scales at 272 pages. A bright chap, the 64-year-old writer graduated in German from Hertford College, Oxford, and studied for [more…]

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Review: The Pre-Persons

11th March 2024 Going Postal 0

PKD lived from 1928 to 1982, dying aged 53 of a stroke.  He wrote Science Fiction – over 40 novels and 120 short stories.  His were the stories behind many famous films such as: Do [more…]

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Book Review: The Last Dance by Mark Billingham

12th February 2024 Going Postal 0

Mark Billingham will be familiar to many Puffins as the author and creator of the DI Thorne series of novels (which Sky One based their “Thorne” series on). As a keen reader of crime fiction [more…]

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Book review: Three Lives, by Nigel Parsons

9th December 2023 Going Postal 0

According to amazon, ‘Nigel Parsons was born in an army camp in the South of England and spent many of his early years living in the remnants of the British empire, Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, and [more…]

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Book Review: The Jaggard Case

23rd October 2023 Going Postal 0

The Jaggard Case is book number 10 in a series written by author J.C. Briggs. Set in Victorian London the series describes the adventures of one Charles Dickens (yes, that Charles Dickens) who has turned [more…]

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