Is it the only translation? Is there an Irish/British English one?

126. Playground by Richard Powers
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Depths beautifully captured

Is this made by AI?

125. Climbers by M. John Harrison
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Top-out took ages

124. L’anniversaire de Kim Jong-il by Aurélien Ducoudray and Mélanie Allag
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True story, mostly?

123. Nottingham, tome 2: La Traque by Vincent Brugeas, Emmanuel Herzet, Benoît Dellac and Denis Bechu
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An unlikely alliance

‘Made away themselves’ 🤗

122. Όμορφα παραμύθια με ζώα by Αίσωπος, illustrated by Sergio Cavina
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Fabulously drawn fables

I’ve noticed people using this formulation a lot recently and Keir Starmer on Peter Mandelson is just the latest and most noticeable yet. If the prime minister says it, can it be wrong? Is the past perfect tense dying out?
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‘If knew then what I do now, he would never have been anywhere near government.’ That’s grammatically incorrect, isn’t it? When I was teaching English as a foreign language I’d have corrected that a hundred times out of a hundred to ‘If I *had known* then what I do now…’.
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121. Ανώνυμος ο Αθηναίος: στη σκιά της Ακρόπολης by Κωνσταντίνος Σκλαβενίτης
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Who was he?

120. The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Deepest darkest Saxony

119. Atomic Albion by Tom Bolton
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Hidden legacy hunting

118. The Book Tour by Andi Watson
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I bought it

2025 reading: 52 books; made my target of one a week by a whisker. 27 fiction, 23 non-fiction, 2 poetry. 19 not in English: 5 in CS, 5 FR, 4 EL, 3 PL, 1 HU, 1 UK. 16 by or translated by women. 15 graphic novels. 5 in translation: 1 each from DE, CY, PL, ES and KR. Reviews: bsky.app/profile/paul...

117. Nonstop Eufrat by Veronika Bendová
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Mysterious texting ways

116. Ρεμπέτικο Νοτούρνο by Περικλής Κουλιφέτης
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No one wins

115. Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds
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What a character

115. Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds
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What a character

114. Faith by Joanna Trollope
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Bookstore her way

113. Lost Cat by Mary Gaitskill
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Cats and kids

112. The Once and Future Riot by Joe Sacco
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Master tackles hindutva

Until seeing this one I’d only seen the recent years and assumed you were presenting the best book you’d read in the year in question!

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Thank you for this one. I’m deep into climbing but hadn’t come across it.

A Happy Christmas to all!

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He isn’t a dentist

111. L’Arabe du futur, tome 1: Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1985-1987), by Riad Sattouf
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More Tintin influence

I think that’s what I was getting at.