Name: Philip Spires
Dateline: La Nucia, Alicante
Weblog: www.philipspires.co.uk [RSS]
Articles: 17
First Published: Monday, April 21, 2008
Last Published: Friday, July 18, 2008
Currently listing articles 17-1:
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Book Review: Towards Asmara by Thomas Keneally— "Towards Asmara" by Thomas Keneally travels through Eritrea's war of independence, a conflict that ousiders interpret.
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Book Review: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote — A truly frightening view of how violence and murder can come home.
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Book Review: The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai — As a process, the book is almost stunningly good. As a product, it falls short.
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Book Review: The End Of The Affair by Graham Greene— The book examines the space within human relationships. It suggests, perhaps, that we often enter that space only unwillingly, and vacate it with ease.
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Book Review: Ashes To The Vistula by Bill Copeland— Auschwitz concentration camp is the setting for this World War Two novel about loyalty and betrayal.
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Book Review: The Way To Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa— Mario Vargas Llosa juxtaposes the fame of painter Paul Gauguin with the life of his socialist campaigner grandmother, Flora Tristan.
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Book Review: Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel — A novel about Samoan society, a complex culture often misunderstood by outsiders.
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Book Review: The Spanish Inquisition – An Historical Revision by Henry Kamen— Details the ideology, processes and consequences of an infamous pursuit of religious purity.
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Book Review: Two Weeks Since My Last Confession by Kate Genovese— The O'Briens are a good Catholic family, the father a senator. Drugs, war and abuse take their toll, however.
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Book Review: Rufus And The Biggest Diamond In The World by Michael Elsmere— In Rufus, two boys seek and find treasure in an imagined journey to worlds where birds talk and words come to life.
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Book Review: Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester— A story set in Hong Kong, a city that is almost a character, where immigrants grapple with globalisation.
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Book Review: The Door by Magda Szabo — The Door opens slowly, for small incremental revelations complete a picture of a life that even the imagination of a writer could not have created.
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Book Review: My Life As A Fake by Peter Carey — A poet, an invention of an Australian bicycle repair-man in Malaya, writes blissfully. The problem is he does not exist.
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Book Review: Double Vision by Pat Barker— A tender, surprising novel where strong emotions are traded.
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Book Review: Kingdom Come by J.G. Ballard — A stark view of a Britain driven by rampant consumerism tinged with boredom, Kingdom Come decribes a dystopia Ballard clearly believes is almost upon us.
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Book Review: Aunt Julia And The Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa— Aunt Julia And The Scriptwriter is a surreal novel that blurs distinctions between reality and fiction, fact and invention.
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Cultured Tangos— Cultured Tangos examines aspects of the music of Argentine composer, Astor Piazzolla.
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