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This is what I’ve read since June.

In a Flat Place by Masud looks at various flat landscapes, including the Fens. It’s very good on these places from all kinds of personal and theoretical levels. This is her going to Orkney https://granta.com/a-flat-place/

YA before it got all urban and issues based. I remember Family from One End Street as a kid and I’ve taught TMG to 11 year olds - many years ago.

Pirates and Girl at her Volcano. She put out an album of standards this year: Pieces of Treasure which I think is lovely. I don’t think RLJ is anywhere near as consistent as Joni but those two albums are worth spending time with. (As Nyro - but that’s another story)

Dear god, we’ve got to go through all of this..again.

Vendler on the sonnets is a joy. So much more interesting than Paulin.

Good luck - I turned up the other day and he was nowhere to be seen.

Wireless, Mrs Bathurst, Mary Postgate are all excellent short stories. He does a good line in the uncanny with a number of his ‘ghost’ stories. A writer who is definitely under appreciated

The wiki on Life A User’s manual gives a pretty comprehensive list - starting with the idea of the knight’s movements round a chess board, a series of pairs, various literary works and a bunch of other constraints. What makes it so good is you don’t need to know any of that for it to work...

I wouldn’t start with A Void. Life a User’s Manual is a good one for Perec, if you like that then fill your boots on W, Things, A Man Asleep, Species of Spaces and all the rest. Zazie in the Metro by Queneau is very good and, again, if you like that then there’s much more where that came from...

Lion’s Share is always worth sharing.

Im in the Lake District communing with the spirit of the Preludes. - a much more fitting tribute than merely being there in person.

There was a great place there - Delhi Grill but I think it’s closed now.

I genuinely do think he’d be interested in the Roger Lewis biog of Burton and Taylor. A genuinely idiosyncratic, freewheeling account of their lives, their careers, their cultural impact plus a whole bunch of other stuff. If, as Flaubert says, “When you write the biography of a friend, you must...

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I dunno - it depends upon what i am reading - it usually works out at about 100 or so books a year - about 2 a week. i usually have a big book on the go along with various smaller ones. At the moment i've got the Kate Bush biog that has just been reissued, a collection of Paul Auster's non...

I actually read a Christie last week (I’m going to a live recording of Backlisted on it) and all I can say is that she is much odder than I remember. This was a late one - Endless Night from the 60s and it’s like pot boiler thriller with elements of existentialism straight out of Camus. There’s...

I would never normally recommend something with Stephen Fry in it but the Backlisted podcast on De Profundis was much better than I had expected. The two hosts - Andy Miller and John Mitcheson are both proper deep readers and placed it not just in the context of Reading Gaol but also his life...