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Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Tigers Four: 'The Tiger's Wife' by Tea Obreht

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I almost didn’t read this book because I thought it was going to be a story about a boy meeting a magical tiger, personifying the worst of m...
Monday, 6 February 2012

Hooray!

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It's so refreshing to hear somebody other than me criticising Charles Dickens. * This won't be an entirely serious post - I'm to...
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Monday, 2 January 2012

My Top Ten Books of 2011

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[with the disclaimer that these are not books first published in 2011, but read by me for the first time in that year, although that will be...
Thursday, 29 December 2011

To Be Read Pile To Be Dead Pile This Year

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This post is simply to make a public announcement that I am tired of having a TBR pile, and hope to get rid of it this year. My pile is not ...
Saturday, 24 December 2011

'They're ill to tame, the border men'

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I'm not, on the whole, a big fan of teenage fiction. While the children's books I loved when I was little, such as Marianne Dreams ,...
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Laura Tisdall
I'm a Stipendiary Lecturer in History at St Anne's College, Oxford, and am also currently writing a novel (or three) in my 'spare time'. I like books, decaf coffee and cocktails, particularly dry martinis.
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