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Stephen’s 2019 Year in Books
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Stephen Palmer
Goodreads Author
Born
in Harpenden, The United Kingdom
February 28
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Genre
Influences
Member Since
February 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/stephenpalmersf
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Beautiful Intelligence
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2015
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3 editions
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Memory Seed
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1996
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3 editions
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The Girl With Two Souls (The Factory Girl Trilogy #1)
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2016
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5 editions
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Glass
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1997
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3 editions
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Urbis Morpheos
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2010
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2 editions
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The Rat and the Serpent
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2012
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Hairy London
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2014
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4 editions
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Muezzinland
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2002
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4 editions
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Tommy Catkins
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2016
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3 editions
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No Grave For A Fox (Beautiful Intelligence #2)
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The Grotte du Mas d’Azil spear thrower
I listened to a very interesting programme on Radio 4 today summarising what’s known about Palaeolithic cave and portable art. Three experts in the field gave their views, including Paul Petitt, who wasn’t shy about voicing his opinions. One contributor, when describing portable art, alluded to the famous spear thrower from Grotte du Mas d’Azil, describing it as an example of an image of defecatio
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A fantastic book! I loved it as a child, and still do. The animated film version is not bad too.
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The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek by Barry Cunliffe I picked this book up in Hay-on-Wye over the summer. In recent years I’ve bought quite a few books on remarkable voyages of exploration, and when I worked at Waterstones I had a similar ...more |
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| As a fan of the highly esteemed Goon Show, I was delighted to see that a biography of Larry Stephens – a name I only knew from the Goons, and whom I’d assumed to be a minor player in the Grafton Arm scene – had been written and published. I bought it ...more | |
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"I thoroughly enjoyed this book which I would class as literary fiction first and foremost and latterly a slipstream novel (mixing as it does elements of horror, fantasy, and possibly science fiction). Everington's style is intriguing and engaging and"
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Now I must admit that "Battlefield Earth" is a book with something for everyone, all the way across the cultural scale from people who need doorstops to people who want to start bonfires.”
― The Silence of the Langford
Now I must admit that "Battlefield Earth" is a book with something for everyone, all the way across the cultural scale from people who need doorstops to people who want to start bonfires.”
― The Silence of the Langford
“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
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“Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”
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