"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
I was a child in Sharlston, then a mining village, and then Crofton, near Wakefield, UK. I went to London University and then did two years as a VSO in Kenya. I then taught in London for 16 years before moving to Brunei technical education. I then worked in Zayed University in the UAE for three years. Since 2003, I have lived in Spain, and have completed a PhD in education’s role in Philippine development and two novels, Mission and A Fool's Knot.
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Book Review: Notes On A Scandal by Zoë Heller
The muck hits the fan, and Notes On A Scandal chronicles those who get hit by the fall-out.
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Book Review: A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali by Gil Courtemanche
As a portrait of an almost uncompromisingly ugly and abhorrent experience, A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali is an often one-paced, one-dimensional read.
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Book Review: Lost In The Forest by Sue Miller
Inhabits the undergrowth of the dysfunctional family, where an adolescent daughter weaves a web of deceit.
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Book Review: The Destiny Of Natalie X by William Boyd
Examines the nature of selfishness and self-interest in human relationships.
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Classic Book Review: The Heart Of The Matter by Graham Greene
Like a Shakespearean tragedy, this classic presents a deeply moving examination of motive and conscience.
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Book Review: Resistance by Owen Sheers
In Resistance German troops occupy Britain, men disappear, relationships blossom, and life goes on.
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Book Review: The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
Dissects sixty years or ordinary lives, lived in an ordinary way, thus capturing their essential, inevitable unpredictability.
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Book Review: Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt
Examines how ideology can determine the direction of relationships.
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Book Review: The Heart Of The Country by Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon scrapes through the surface of a rural idyll to reveal people doing what people do, to find a caricature of modern British society.
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Book Review: The South by Colm Toibin
In The South we live a painter’s life, make her mistakes, travel from Ireland to Spain and back, and age, inconsistently.
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