E.K. Wicher
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"Memories, fossils, rock pools
There was just enough mystery, just enough insightful reflection on the relationships we have with our own childhoods, a touch of exploration on what happens when staid, male academics meet live-wire, unhappy women – do o " Read more of this review » |
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| Don't be put off by the title, this is a fascinating descriptions of family life in mid-Victorian England. (Not Dickensian slums, no satanic mills, just the worms turning in pastoral Downe.) Evokes the humanity of Charles Darwin with touching portrai ...more | |
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| As a Canadian, I was familiar with the ill-fated expedition of the Erebus and Terror to the Northwest passage, illumined by the recent discovery of the wrecks. It tends today to be cast today as colonialist adventure, ill-prepared and scorning tradit ...more | |
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| A reminder for those hankering after the life of the Newfoundland outports. God no! But the book, its characters, language and evocation of that bleak coast are marvellously imagined. | |
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| Original, and set in rural England in the late 18th century. The book draws one in to strange lives in a disconcerting world where enlightened rationality is struggling with superstition and magic. Loved the trip. | |
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| Loved this book. Brings post-war northern Ireland to life and shows why so many of us left. It is an amazing story. And the dialogue in that harsh accent comes across as genuine, perfect for the cold and wet. God help the travellers. | |
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| A young Australian lives the bohemian life of 1920s and 1930s Paris and France. Not sure who she didn't meet in the way of starving artists of that period, who later became famous. But this is not a name-dropping autobiography, rather a sensitive por ...more | |
“It seemed as if the stars were watching him like the eyes of countless spiders, the black maw of the slide waiting for his slightest movement, its mud tongue preparing one last swallow to engulf him.”
― The Leda: the geological obsession of Dr. Argile
― The Leda: the geological obsession of Dr. Argile
“It seemed as if the stars were watching him like the eyes of countless spiders, the black maw of the slide waiting for his slightest movement, its mud tongue preparing one last swallow to engulf him.”
― The Leda: the geological obsession of Dr. Argile
― The Leda: the geological obsession of Dr. Argile











