0719 | A History of the Early Church | Hans Lietzmann
This is a rare four-volume set focussing on the history of the Christian church from the time of the apostles through to … well, when Lietzmann died in 1942 with…
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0565 | Fugitive Pieces | Anne Michaels
This was a strange book, the tale of a WW2 Jewish refugee who is initially harboured on a Greek island before emigrating to Canada. Michaels writes her own prose, and…
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0478 | The Third Wedding | Costas Taktsis
The Third Wedding is the story of two Greek women and their lives from the 1920s through until the years following WW2. One is called Hecuba. The other, who narrates…
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0437 | The Golden Ass | Lucius Apuleius
This Ass is packed with tales that are as full of characters as they are hard to follow. Make sure you get yourself a good translation of this if you…
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0361 | The Talented Mr Ripley | Patricia Highsmith
Context: While reading this the 1001 App Facebook page got it’s 100th like. REVIEW Wow! This was some page-turner. Once you’re in there’s no escape, you just can’t wait to…
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0349 | In a Free State | V. S. Naipaul
Context: Was reading this when I visited the National Orchid Garden of PNG outside Port Moresby. Amazing variety of the weirdest-looking flowers I’ve ever seen. REVIEW I don’t think I’ve…
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0339 | Jacob’s Room | Virginia Woolf
Context: Attended a Cultural Self-Discovery Workshop while I read this… fascinating… both the book and the workshop! REVIEW Boy this woman can write. With every book that I pick up…
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0255 | Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
Context: Read this as we visited the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Inside there was a statue commissioned by Hadrian of his lover, Antinous. Unfortunately, they wouldn’t let me take a…
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0064 | Metamorphoses ~ Ovid
REVIEW This is a 400-page poem. It’s over 2000 years old to boot. If ancient poetry grabs you, this is your thing. Is it mine?
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