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Graeme Macrae Burnet
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Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
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Aunt Jeanne
Aunt Jeanne belon
gs to the subset of Simenon’s dysfunctional family novels, among which can be counted The Others, The Fate of the Malous, Strange Inheritance and Uncle Charles, to name but a few.
The novel opens with the return, after an absence of 36 years, of overweight, alcoholic, world-weary Jeanne to her childhood home. The Martineaus are, or were, a family of wealthy wine merchants in small
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His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
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2015
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The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau (Georges Gorski #1)
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2014
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30 editions
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The Accident on the A35 (Georges Gorski #2)
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2017
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17 editions
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These Our Monsters
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Man Booker Prize 2016 Shortlist - 6 Books
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Die Ferien des Monsieur Mahé
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“One man can no more see into the mind of another than he can see inside a stone...”
― His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
― His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
“If we measure our society by the compassion we extend to all its members, then it must be admitted that in extending such compassion to the most wretched among us, we demonstrate our fidelity to the most civilised Christian values.”
― His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
― His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
“If asked how one’s business is doing, the customary response is: ‘Could be worse,’ or ‘Just about surviving.’ Anything more upbeat is reckoned insufferable boasting. Personal achievements should be dismissed as flukery and mentioned only after an extended period of arm-twisting. It is regarded as a great misfortune for one’s daughter to be too pretty or one’s son to be too bright. In Saint-Louis, as in all provincial backwaters, the inhabitants are most comfortable with failure. Success serves only to remind the citizenry of their own shortcomings and is thus to be enthusiastically resented.”
― The Accident on the A35
― The Accident on the A35
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| The Mookse and th...: 2016 Booker Longlist Discussion | 106 | 121 | Sep 13, 2016 02:14AM | |
| ManBookering: 2016 Longlist Predictions [MBP] | 206 | 331 | Sep 14, 2016 10:06PM | |
| 21st Century Lite...: 2016 Man Booker prize | 36 | 124 | Oct 26, 2016 10:39AM | |
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| Read Scotland 2017: Awards | 6 | 23 | Dec 04, 2016 01:31PM |
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