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336
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383
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date pub edition 1998
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isbn13 9780091926502
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num pages
352
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avg rating 3.60
num ratings 245
date pub 2009
date pub edition Apr 21, 2009
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num pages
336
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avg rating 4.18
num ratings 71
date pub May 2013
date pub edition May 07, 2013
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288
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avg rating 3.94
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date pub 1967
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num pages
343
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avg rating 3.91
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date pub 1996
date pub edition Aug 05, 2005
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cover title author isbn 1847379591
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num pages
480
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avg rating 3.71
num ratings 1,098
date pub 2009
date pub edition Nov 01, 2011
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avg rating 3.81
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date pub 2004
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num pages
310
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avg rating 3.27
num ratings 15
date pub Jan 01, 1999
date pub edition Jul 21, 1999
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avg rating 3.45
num ratings 164
date pub Jan 01, 2001
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avg rating 3.56
num ratings 2,066
date pub 2011
date pub edition Jan 01, 2012
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isbn13 9780349114675
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avg rating 4.06
num ratings 1,514
date pub 2001
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avg rating 3.32
num ratings 384
date pub 1995
date pub edition 1997
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cover title author isbn 0141014830
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avg rating 4.03
num ratings 154
date pub Jan 01, 1997
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cover title author isbn 1843913720
isbn13 9781843913726
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num pages
396
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avg rating 3.84
num ratings 16,534
date pub 2009
date pub edition Jul 12, 2012
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cover title author isbn 0007351453
isbn13 9780007351459
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num pages
650
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avg rating 3.82
num ratings 40,942
date pub 2009
date pub edition Jan 01, 2010
Anders's rating my rating review It's very rare that I read a book that I really don't enjoy. What has surprised me more is that it is a book that has been so highly rated by others a...more
It's very rare that I read a book that I really don't enjoy. What has surprised me more is that it is a book that has been so highly rated by others and won the Booker Prize. But that was, sadly, the way with this book. I can't quite put my finger on what it was that I didn't enjoy. I have read very little historical fiction, and so perhaps it was just the genre. I also found the style of writing far too archaic for my liking, and so again perhaps it was just that I tend to prefer more modern language. There are also a lot of characters in this book and so perhaps tending to read on a train when it is noisy and there can be distractions meant I couldn't keep a proper track of who was who. But whatever the reason was I just couldn't get in to it. I thought I should have enjoyed it as I find history generally interesting, but once I'd got halfway through and continually thinking that if I persevered a bit longer I would get in to it, I couldn't face it any longer. Unusually this book was abandoned before reaching the end.(less)
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isbn13 9780571179367
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num pages
614
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avg rating 4.31
num ratings 51,814
date pub 1995
date pub edition Feb 03, 1997
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isbn13 9780552998031
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avg rating 3.93
num ratings 310
date pub Oct 01, 1998
date pub edition May 01, 1999
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num pages
336
pp
avg rating 3.75
num ratings 63
date pub May 01, 2009
date pub edition Mar 01, 2010
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isbn13 9780753515051
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num pages
281
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avg rating 3.80
num ratings 25
date pub Apr 01, 2009
date pub edition Apr 01, 2009
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cover title author isbn 0007272480
isbn13 9780007272488
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num pages
738
pp
avg rating 3.35
num ratings 1,159
date pub 2008
date pub edition 2008
Anders's rating my rating review It's a very rare thing to read a book that is set in the area where you grew up. And when I say the area I grew up I don't mean in the sense that I gr...more
It's a very rare thing to read a book that is set in the area where you grew up. And when I say the area I grew up I don't mean in the sense that I grew up in the same city, but I actually spent my childhood in exactly the same suburbs of Sheffield and walked the same streets. There is a time difference of about 10-15 years but other than that there is so much that resonates. I often wonder with other books set in places I know whether other readers really get the novel in the same way, but with The Northern Clemency being shortlisted for the Booker Prize they must do. For me however, knowing the territory made it so much more powerful and even when Philip Hensher had changed the name of a shop, a school, a restaurant or a club, I knew exactly where he was referring to, and with the 'crags' having also played a part in my childhood it was great to see them depicted in great literature. But on to the book itself... It has to be said that the size of this book is huge - 738 pages - which makes it one of the best adverts there's ever been for using a Kindle, however I'm still a fan of paper books and so I reserved it mainly for Christmas when I didn't have to lug it on my daily commute to work as much. But despite the size of it, it manages to rattle along at a reasonable pace and I ploughed through it quite quickly. It sounds like an odd way of describing a book that I've rated so highly, but actually very little happens in it. Essentially it starts off with families living on a street in the 1970s and finishes with them still living in the same streets in the 1990s, via a few geographical digressions. Although every so often something happens that surprises you, and it is these occasional dramas that have significance later on, it is essentially just taking you through the lives of two families. It's actually fairly unremarkable, but the characterisation is what is strong and makes you really want to understand each person and see how they progress and change. Those little subtleties, nuances, turns of phrase, reactions and so on, those are the things that make this such a strong book. It's not a sense of place, but a sense of person, that makes it work so well.(less)
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cover title author isbn 0552772437
isbn13 9780552772433
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num pages
428
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avg rating 3.77
num ratings 26,001
date pub 2004
date pub edition Jun 01, 2005
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cover title author isbn 1857978633
isbn13 9781857978636
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avg rating 3.94
num ratings 2,707
date pub 1994
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cover title author isbn 0571258808
isbn13 9780571258802
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num pages
309
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avg rating 3.51
num ratings 4,239
date pub 2010
date pub edition Jun 01, 2011
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cover title author isbn 0349115265
isbn13 9780349115269
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num pages
224
pp
avg rating 3.41
num ratings 29
date pub 2002
date pub edition Jan 01, 2002
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cover title author isbn 1848876122
isbn13 9781848876125
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num pages
479
pp
avg rating 3.42
num ratings 217
date pub 2009
date pub edition Jul 2012
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cover title author isbn 0553561731
isbn13 9780553561739
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num pages
304
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avg rating 3.71
num ratings 541
date pub 1992
date pub edition Sep 01, 1994
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avg rating 3.00
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cover title author isbn 1845134192
isbn13 9781845134198
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num pages
400
pp
avg rating 3.86
num ratings 21
date pub Apr 21, 2009
date pub edition Jul 01, 2009
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