L. Barber, An education
R. Blythe, Akenfield
E.M. Brent- Dyer, The school at the chalet*
E. Crispin, The case of the gilded fly
C.L.R. James, Letters from London
M. Marquesee, War minus the shooting*
R. Silverberg, Downward to Earth*
B. Unsworth, Pascali's Island
In some ways, I'm bottling this. My delight about the delivery of the complete Chalet School series from home is profound. There is a creeping inevitability about me reading them all. The first is excellent and was a strong contender for BOTM. As was Mike Marquesee's book on the 1996 cricket world cup. Instead, I've plumped for Michael Cunningham's famous, highly lauded, concept novel. It is of course better written than the Chalet school and structurally more complex. It's also exceptionally clever and well done. It's not a long book and it's packed tight (note of course that it's not really three stories but two and a prequel). I find Virginia Woolf unreadable, but this briefly made me think I wanted to revisit her work. Instead I've started book two of the Chalet school. I'm happy with that.
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