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The Whalebone Theatre: Joanna Quinn
Fig Tree, Penguin 2022 (Free Proof Copy, acquired at a charity shop)

For some reason, I thought it was a children’s book, although I was quickly disabused of that notion just by reading the table of contents, fittingly laid out in acts rather than parts. We start off in 1919 ( Read more... )

The Swallows’ Flight: Hilary McKay. Macmillan, 2021

This book mainly follows four humans and a dog. We are introduced to ( Read more... )

Prague in Black and Gold: Peter Demetz. Penguin, 1998.

I finally opened a non-fiction book and decided to try reading it one chapter at a time between other books, which may be the way to get through them. I bought this second hand in Prague itself, having fallen under the city's spell as a tourist. Its subtitle is ‘The History of a City’. ( Read more... ) [Edited for typos and clarity, 2/6/25.]

The Skylarks’ War: Hilary McKay. Macmillan Children‘s Books, 2018

I’ll start this review by discussing preconceptions, or, less pretentiously, admit that for some reason I thought this book was set during the second world war. I didn’t really look at it when I snapped it up in a charity shop (way back when) as it had been so widely lauded. It was only upon opening it up to read it that I realised my mistake. And, of course, it was suitably published a century after the end of the first world war.

( This review refers to some details from the end of the book. )

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