Catching up

     I'm so pleased that there was such a positive response to the Trollope, and that in many ways The Warden confounded expectations, proved to be so relevant to our own times, and simply gave us pleasure; that's a good result.

    Thank you to all who read it and left comments, and hurrah for all those who have said they'll now go on and read more Trollope - that is gratifying. To anyone who has been dithering a bit, unsure as to whether he would appeal, I'd say by all means give him a try.

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    I'm overdue with reviews of one or two books, but until I write them, let me just give the thumbs-up to both William Nicholson's Reckless and Louise Levene's The Following Girls.

    Meanwhile I'm rattling along with Nigel Farndale's The Road Between Us having found The Blasphemer, his previous novel, quite the book (as you'll see here).

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    In other recommendations from this neck of the woods, Son-of-Cornflower is re-reading William Dalrymple's Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, so good did he (and Mr. C.) find it first time round, and Mr. C. has been completely hooked - forgive the pun - by Niall Williams's History of the Rain which I loved and which I'll be writing about closer to publication.

Comments

[Mystica]

I just read and reviewed The Small House at Allington and though it was such a big book, I found it very pleasant to read.

[susan hall]

i love Trollope's Barchester novels, the Palliser ones not so much. I do hope you will go on with them I think Barchester Towers one of the funniest books I ever read and you have made me want to read it again for the umpteenth time.