Saturday Night & Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
A good book, with a truly unlikeable protagonist
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lairs of the Hidden Gods: Volume 3, Straight to Darkness
A very hard to find translation of Japanese Lovecraftian horror.
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🎙️Link to Part One of our conversation → youtu.be/cZwqeQ_TnWU
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The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
An excellently crafted gothic horror (which tinges of folk horror)
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Precious Bane by Mary Webb
A classic English pastoral novel this time
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Sworn Virgin by Elvira Dones (translated by Clarissa Botsford)
A fascinating and unique look at gender
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"How did a young Shakespeare scholar end up as a leading expert on the propaganda that pervades our world today?"
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Life at Blandings by PG Wodehouse
We start the journey proper, and where else to set out than my own doorstep...
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The Only One in the World: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology
The preamble continues with a collection of short stories imagining Holmes and Watson in different times and places.
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A review of The Haunting of Hajji Hotak by Jamil Jan Kochai. It was OK, but failed to ascend beyond this.
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Turbulence by David Szalay
Another globally set book as part of my preamble.
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Morning Womble!
Today’s reads are Lifeboat at the End of the World by Dominic Gregory, which I think will complement my recent read of Horatio Clare’s We Came By Sea
And in fiction the short stories Manchester Happened by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi as part of my #ReadingTheWorld project
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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
I've started by next trip around the world, or rather starter the preamble.
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Finished one challenge, starting another. This time its Around the World in 80,000 pages.
You can follow my progress on my blog: theworldisabookblog.blogspot.com
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I finally finished my ROUND THE WORLD IN 65(ISH) NOVELS challenge. In the end, I read 100 novels from 77 different countries
Find out my top five on my blog: theworldisabookblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/arou...
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100: Holy Island by LJ Ross - UK
The last book of my challenge. We end, not so much with a bang, as a disappointed sigh.
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99: Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun (translated by W Worster) - Norway
A deceptively complex tale of life in rural Norway
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A scratch off map of the world with many of the countries uncovered
So relieved that people came to my new book group today & that they liked the idea & concept.
Our next meeting will be 12.45 on 10th Feb at the Millennium Library in Norwich and our focus will be Nordic books but up my relief this has widened out from just Noir!
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98: When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzén (translated by
Alice Menzies) - Sweden
A simple of beautiful story about the end of one man's life
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97: Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo (translated by Herbert Lomas) - Finland
A very interesting take on nordic folk lore.
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"You will not be able to say you read all year if you don’t start in January." ~ Churchill Madyavanhu
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96: The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin (translated by Jamey Gambrell) - Russia
A strange, beautiful but slightly unsatisfying novel.
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95: Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets (translated by
Eugene Ostashevsky) - Ukraine
A fragmentary novel about life in war-torn Kyiv.
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94: Satantango by László Krasznahorkai (Translated by George Szirtes) - Hungary
A very highly regarded book, but I just couldn't get into it.
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93: Life Begins of Friday by Ioana Pârvulescu (translated by Alistair Ian Blyth) - Romania
All very nice, but not that interesting.
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92: Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov (translated by Angela Rodel) - Bulgaria
I struggled to into this one.
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91: The Murderess by Ismail Kadare (translated by Peter Levi) - Greece
Pretty dry and grim, but very interesting
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88: The File on H by Ismail Kadare - Albania
A fun book, but with some deep messages. Highly recommneded.
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87: Cazzarola!: Anarchy, Romani, Love, Italy by Norman Nawrocki - Italy (again)
A family and political saga which spans the 20th century.
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86: Verdigris by Michele Mari (translated by Brian Robert Moore) - Italy
An incredible book from @andotherstories.bsky.social I strongly suggest you read it now
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