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Review: The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

Category: Fiction/Quest for the Meaning of Life – Paperback: 284 pages – Publisher: William Heinemann (then part of Doubleday, now part of Random House) – Source: Public Library First Published: 1944… more →

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Review: The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham — 2 comments

Alex in Leeds wrote 22 hours ago: Category: Fiction/Quest for the Meaning of Life – Paperback: 284 pages – Publisher: William Heineman … more →

Tags: Book Review, 2013 reading, Author From England, Big Six publisher, genre fiction, Published 1944, Publisher: Random House, Rating: 08/10, Source: Public Library

Review: Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig — 3 comments

Alex in Leeds wrote 1 day ago: Category: Fiction in Translation/Domestic Drama – Paperback: 460 pages – Publisher: Pushkin Press – … more →

Tags: Book Review, 2013 reading, Anthea Bell, Author From Austria, genre fiction, Indie publisher, Published 1939, Publisher: Pushkin Press, Rating: 09/10

Review: The Fortune of the Rougons by Emile Zola — 5 comments

Alex in Leeds wrote 1 month ago: Category: Fiction/19th Century/Fiction in Translation – Paperback: 336 pages – Publisher: Oxford Uni … more →

Tags: Rating: 05/10, genre fiction, Theme: Historical, Book Review, Theme: Fiction in Translation, Emile Zola, Source: My Own Shelves, Translated from French, Author From France

Review: On Literature by W. Somerset Maugham — 12 comments

Alex in Leeds wrote 1 month ago: Category: Non-Fiction/Books About Books/Essays – Paperback: 192 pages – Publisher: Signet as part of … more →

Tags: Rating: 09/10, Genre: Non-fiction, Topic: Books about Books, Book Review, Published 1967, Source: Public Library, Topic: Essays, Indie publisher, 2013 reading

Review: Bloody British History - Leeds by Richard Smyth — 1 comment

Alex in Leeds wrote 2 months ago: Category: Non-Fiction/Leeds – Paperback: 96 pages – Publisher: The History Press – Source: Kindly of … more →

Tags: Rating: 07/10, Genre: Non-fiction, Book Review, Topic: Leeds, Source: Publisher, Indie publisher, Publisher: The History Press, Leeds Books, 2013 reading

Review: Against The Law by Peter Wildeblood — 4 comments

Alex in Leeds wrote 3 months ago: A first-hand account of what it means to be a homosexual, and to be tried in a controversial case an … more →

Tags: Book Review, 2013 reading, Big Six publisher, Genre: Non-fiction, Peter Wildeblood, published 1955, Publisher: Penguin Group, Rating: 09/10, Source: My Own Shelves

Review: The Road To Wigan Pier by George Orwell — 8 comments

Alex in Leeds wrote 3 months ago: Category: Non-Fiction/Politics – Hardcover: 232 pages – Publisher: Secker and Warburg – Source … more →

Tags: Rating: 06/10, Genre: Non-fiction, Topic: Politics, Book Review, Topic: History (Long Weekend), Source: Public Library, Author From England, Indie publisher, Publisher: Secker and Warburg

Review: The Last Girlfriend on Earth by Simon Rich — 3 comments

Alex in Leeds wrote 3 months ago: Category: Fiction/Short Stories – Paperback: 224 pages – Publisher: Serpent’s Tail – Source: W … more →

Tags: Rating: 02/10, genre fiction, Theme: Short Stories, Book Review, Author From America, Indie publisher, Publisher: Serpent's Tail, Source: We Love This Book, 2013 reading

Review: The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh — 10 comments

Alex in Leeds wrote 4 months ago: Full Title – The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy Category: Fiction – Paperback: 128 pages … more →

Tags: Rating: 08/10, genre fiction, Book Review, Theme Fiction, Source: Public Library, Author From England, Publisher: Penguin Group, Big Six publisher, 2013 reading

Review: Underground by Haruki Murakami — 9 comments

Alex in Leeds wrote 4 months ago: Full Title: Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche Category: Non-Fiction/Modern H … more →

Tags: Rating: 08/10, Genre: Non-fiction, Topic: History (Modern), Topic: Travel (Asia), Book Review, haruki murakami, published 1997, Published 1998, Source: My Own Shelves

Review: Born Weird by Andrew Kaufman — 4 comments

Alex in Leeds wrote 4 months ago: Category: Fiction – Paperback: 266 pages – Publisher: Random House – Imprint: The Friday Project – S … more →

Tags: Rating: 07/10, genre fiction, theme fantasy, 2012 Reading, Book Review, Theme Fiction, Author From Canada, Big Six publisher, Publisher: Random House

Review: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut — 8 comments

Alex in Leeds wrote 5 months ago: Category: Fiction – Paperback: 157 pages – Publisher: Random House – Imprint: Vintage – Source: Inde … more →

Tags: Rating: 05/10, genre fiction, theme fantasy, Theme: Historical, 2012 Reading, Book Review, Theme Fiction, Source: Leeds Library, Published 1969

Review: The Drought by J G Ballard — 6 comments

Alex in Leeds wrote 5 months ago: Category: Fiction/Science Fiction – Paperback: 233 pages – Publisher: HarperCollins – Imprint: Harpe … more →

Tags: Rating: 04/10, genre fiction, Theme: Sci Fi, 2012 Reading, Book Review, Book Club: Manchester, Source: Secondhand Bookshop, Publisher: HarperCollins, Big Six publisher

Review: Miss Barbellion's Garden by Irving Finkel — 7 comments

Alex in Leeds wrote 5 months ago: Category: Fiction – Paperback: 189 pages – Publisher: Kennedy & Boyd – Independent bookshop via … more →

Tags: Rating: 08/10, genre fiction, 2012 Reading, Book Review, Theme Fiction, published 2012, Source: Via Amazon, Author From England, Indie publisher

Review: Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories by Vladimir Nabokov — 5 comments

Alex in Leeds wrote 5 months ago: Category: Fiction/Short Stories – Hardcover: 238 pages – Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson – Sour … more →

Tags: Rating: 08/10, genre fiction, Theme: Short Stories, 2012 Reading, Book Review, Vladimir Nabokov, Theme: Fiction in Translation, Source: Public Library, Author From Russia

Review: A Russian Gentleman by Sergei Aksakov — 1 comment

Alex in Leeds wrote 5 months ago: Category: Non-Fiction/Biography – Hardcover: 208 pages – Publisher: Oxford University Press – Imprin … more →

Tags: Rating: 04/10, Genre: Non-fiction, Topic: Biography, 2012 Reading, Book Review, Source: Secondhand Bookshop, Author From Russia, Publisher Oxford University Press, Indie publisher

Review: Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane — 11 comments

Alex in Leeds wrote 6 months ago: Category: Fiction/19th Century – Paperback: 228 pages – Publisher: Penguin – Imprint: Penguin Classi … more →

Tags: Rating: 08/10, genre fiction, 2012 Reading, Book Review, Theme: Fiction in Translation, Source: Leeds Library, author from germany, translated from German, Publisher: Penguin Group

Review: Wilkie Collins by Peter Ackroyd — 1 comment

Alex in Leeds wrote 6 months ago: Category: Non-Fiction/Biography – Hardcover: 208 pages – Publisher: Random House – … more →

Tags: Rating: 07/10, Genre: Non-fiction, Topic: Biography, 2012 Reading, Book Review, Topic: Arts, published 2012, Source: Leeds Library, Big Six publisher

Review: Roads to Berlin by Cees Nooteboom — 2 comments

Alex in Leeds wrote 6 months ago: Category: Non-Fiction/Foreign History/Autobiography – Hardback: 352 pages – Publisher: Q … more →

Tags: Rating: 07/10, Genre: Non-fiction, Topic: Biography, Topic: History (Modern), Topic: Travel (Europe), 2012 Reading, Book Review, Published 1990, Source: New Books


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