false 7 173 154 true 5778064 read 1 true 163193 currently-reading 16 true 163192 to-read 2 true 5033957 gave-up---might-try-again-sometime 22 false 2058873 favourites http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74504052 Sunnyside (Hardcover) by Glen David Gold
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73768822 The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 (Paperback) by Antony Beevor
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48495740 The Cellist of Sarajevo (Paperback) by Steven Galloway
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48495621 to: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Or The Murder at Road Hill House (Paperback) by Kate Summerscale
Interesting and very detailed account of the goings on involved with this murder. It got a bit boring after a while! ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48495597 to: A Partisan's Daughter (Hardcover) by Louis de Bernières
Typically De Bernieres tale of love and loss. It's not my favourite by this author by a long way but I did enjoy reading this and rattled through it in a bit more than a week.

If you like this author then you will like this book. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1124723 Gould's Book of Fish (Paperback) by Richard Flanagan
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This is a book I picked up after a friend raved about on his blog. Couldn't get on with it at all and gave up rather quickly, even for me. I generally try to stick with a book even if I'm not enjoying it.

I may revisit in the future. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1124872 to: Needle in the Groove (Paperback) by Jeff Noon
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I really struggled to get into this book, so much so that I gave up on it. I thought I would enjoy as I had loved previous works by this author, particularly Vurt.

Might venture back one day ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48495710 to: God's Own Country (Paperback) by Ross Raisin
I rather enjoyed this book. The way the author draws you into rooting for the main character. An aloof, misunderstood and disenfranchised young farmers son living in the heart of the North Yorks Moors. His love of his natural surroundings and his dog endear him to the reader despite the fact there are one or two clues to a more sinister undercurrent.

It paints a vivid picture of Sam's spiral into obsession and how his minor misdemeanours soon take him to a dark and troubled place. All wonderfully juxtaposed against the beautiful, if sometimes a little bleak, surroundings of North Yorkshire uplands.

A cracking read that I rattled through in a couple of days. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48495761 to: Two Little Boys (Paperback) by Duncan Sarkies
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's a very easy, almost simplistic, read and tells of Nige and Deano and the mess they get themselves when Nige runs over a Norwegian tourist.

The events and happenings are told in turn from each of our protagonists' viewpoints and it relishes in the mundane and its significance in Nige and Deanos' lives.

It's funny, chilling, at times cringeworthy and very touching. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48495786 Berlin Noir: March Violets; The Pale Criminal; A German Requiem (Paperback) by Philip Kerr
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