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Young Stalin
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Young Stalin
First and foremost – I’d thoroughly recommend reading the hardback version of this book. I spent the first 100 pages or so abusing the author for failing to ...
Reviewed by neilward via
on 18 Mar 2009.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Well, what a read that was. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is mesmerising. It’s surreal, dark, dirty, gripping and utterly surprising and inventive. So much so, that for two consecutive ...
Reviewed by neilward via
on 11 Feb 2009.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
1001 gardens you must see before you die
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apart from the title... ? The only thing I didn’t like about this book is the title. A little depressing to be honest. Why it needed Titschmarsh to do ...
Reviewed by doneganland via
on 20 Jan 2009.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce
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‘Do take what I owe from these notes. And do remunerate yourselves for the trouble and inconvenience I may be causing you. Please convey my sincere apologies to my fellow ...
Reviewed by curiousmike via
on 16 Jan 2009.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
Andy McNab's Brute Force
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I'd read a couple of Andy McNab's earlier books and found them to be reasonable reads, so when Brute Force appeared on a list I grabbed a copy ...
Reviewed by mneylon via
on 27 Dec 2008.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
Fool The World - The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies
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Received as a gift, I look forward immediately to devouring this book as an avid Pixies fan. With the exception of a foreward written by the former Pixies British tour ...
Reviewed by Brian Johnston via
on 07 Oct 2008.
3 of 3 people found this useful.
Matter by Ian M. Banks
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Matter is the latest in Ian M. Banks Culture novel. It follows the usual format for Culture novels: weaving a very personal story into a very large, very diverse, inventive ...
Reviewed by theaardvark via
on 02 Oct 2008.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
irish gardens [book]
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I have selected gardens… whose design clearly illustrates a particular period of garden history, and whose plantings demonstrate an almost obsessional love of plants and the surrounding Irish landscape ...
Reviewed by doneganland via
on 11 Sep 2008.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
The Algebraist by Ian M. Banks
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What distinguishes Ian M. Banks's novel is the shear scale of the universes he creates. He paints a picutre not just of the his characters immediate surroundings but of ...
Reviewed by theaardvark via
on 09 Sep 2008.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
food for free
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book review - food for free At €17.60 - this ‘life enhancing classic’ could nearly buy you a good meal and a glass of fine wine… In the ...
Reviewed by doneganland via
on 18 Aug 2008.
1 of 1 people found this useful.






