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Harold Bloom: Harper Lee (Paperback, 2006, Chelsea House Publications)
Jon Courtenay Grimwood: Arabesk (Paperback, 2007, Gollancz)
Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Time (Hardcover, 2015, Tor)

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood: Pashazade (Paperback, 2002, Simon & Schuster (Trade Division))
Michael Chabon: The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Hardcover, 2007, HarperCollins Publishers)
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George Orwell: Animal Farm by George Orwell Illustrated (2021, Independently Published)

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@kevinrutherford Thanks to your review I ended up reading and very much enjoying this book (the ending was a bit "Bond villain explains the plot" for my liking, but didn't detract too much).

In return may I recommend "Finding Nouf" by Zoe Ferraris? It's the first in a trilogy of thrillers set in contemporary Saudi Arabia. Like "A Rising Man" it's a pretty unusual setting for a murder mystery and at least for me scratched a particular itch.

reviewed The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Tombs of Atuan (Hardcover, 2012, Gallery / Saga Press) 4 stars

Arha's isolated existence as high priestess in the tombs of Atuan is jarred by a …

Still a great read

5 stars

It's decades since I last read this book and I could only remember fragments of it. I had filed it away as one of the best books I'd ever read and on that basis I was worried that reading it all these years later would demote it from that lofty position. It is with relief I can confirm that I wasn't wrong all those years ago and I can keep it filed in its existing place as a fantastic book.