A group of friends get together shortly after a funeral in order to act out the final wish of the recently deceased, one Jack Dodds, Master Butcher, which was to scatter his ashes off of Margate Pier. As you would expect, the mourners have a tangled past together, full of shared and separate secr...
Waterland is a complex novel set in the England’s Fens. The main plot centers on the life and history of narrator Tom Crick. Tom is a middle-aged history teacher who is dealing with his wife’s recent mental breakdown and a school department that no longer values his contributions. Every day he st...
The Sweet Shop Owner is the first book in my month of birthday reading. Graham Swifts birthday is May 4th, ooh that’s today – spooky. I have read two other Graham Swift novels although quite some time ago, I am now reminded what an excellent writer he is.It is June 1974 and on the last day of Wil...
I didn't care for Tomorrow. I didn't dislike it because the entire novel is an interior monologue by a woman lying in bed. I wasn't put off by the premise of her interior address to her children, the twins Kate and Nick, who're to be told something tomorrow that'll change forever the way they l...
Πολύ ενδιαφέρον βιβλίο, που μπορεί να χαρακτηριστεί και σαν ψυχολογικό θρίλερ, μια μικρή αγωνία την έχεις για να δεις που τελικά θα καταλήξει η όλη ιστορία. Πρωταγωνιστής είναι ο Πρέντις που δουλεύει σε ένα γραφείο όπου κρατούνται όλοι οι φάκελοι με στοιχεία όλων των υποθέσεων που έχει αναλάβει η...
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Yet I take the further liberty of presuming that perhaps in those nine years I have not been wholly absent from your thoughts (as you, indeed, have lodged permanently in mine) and that you may agree with me, at least on our little private scale of things, that the past is not easily to be dismiss...
It’s only the thick taste of hate that lets me. As if I need to go and puke.Look what you did to her, look what you made her do.Even as I walk I feel the tug, the pluck at my back.But don’t be fooled. It’s only a grave. Don’t look round—a last glance, as at some abandoned victim. The roses like a...
He was not as they’d expected. He was soft-spoken, silver-haired and kindly. He smiled at them as if he’d never before met such a sweet newly married young couple, so plainly in love yet so sensibly doing the right thing. He was more like a vicar than a solicitor, and later Nick and Lisa shared t...
Picture-books aren’t real. The fairy-tales all got discredited long ago, didn’t they? There shouldn’t be thatched cottages still, tucked away among green hills. You shouldn’t be able to advertise in the local papers for an assistant and fall in love with the very first candidate who comes along. ...
‘I’d slip away if I were you …’ But that hadn’t meant the man should simply turn tail and make a beeline. ‘Slip away’ implied some tact. Major Richards felt vaguely disappointed. Nonetheless, as he watched Jack walk away, he found himself oddly willing him on. He was walking in an intent, obstina...