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91% complete! David Clubb has read 11 of 12 books.
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But …
"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister …
"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister …
"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a …
When you have money, university girls are to men what plankton is to a whale
— My sister, the serial killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Page 80)
"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a …
My wife read this for her book club and recommended it to me 👌
Now let's see if I agree...
This is an extraordinary novel, a series of short stories linked in wonderfully inventive and intricate ways. The reader is taken through the decades, seeing choices and consequences. Betrayal, passion, love, tenacity, brittleness, and love... Everything is underpinned by that.
I loved this book. It absorbed me into different times and worlds, and left deep impressions in a number of ways.
This a blow by blow and month by month account of how a well-managed, but …
I loved this book. Taking as the starting point an unsustainable agri-business model that will be familiar to anyone who follows 'contemporary' British agriculture practice, the book charts the progress of a farm towards a nature-friendly destination.
The writing is quite beautiful in its description of nature, in hundreds of different ways. The passion of the author clearly shines through, and I hope that other land owners have been inspired as a result.
I finished this book on a trip to the Abergavenny area, like much of Wales over-grazed and an ecosystem desert. There is so much for us to learn and appreciate from nature, and this book has been an amazing insight into possibility.
This a blow by blow and month by month account of how a well-managed, but totally unprofitable estate farm in …
This a blow by blow and month by month account of how a well-managed, but totally unprofitable estate farm in …
Hertfordshire, 1928. The paths of Tom and Alice collide against a haze of youthful, carefree exuberance. There's champagne and excitement, …
