Monthly Archives: November 2013

Michael Ondaatje’s Billy the Kid

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Patrick Lennon

Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is not really a novel and not really a volume of poetry either. It’s less than a hundred pages long and most of those consist of only a few lines of … Continue reading →

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Ben Elton’s The First Casualty

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Patrick Lennon

Ben Elton’s 2005 novel The First Casualty clearly advertises itself as a World War I novel. The poppy and the faded sepia photograph of soldiers wearing Brodie helmets are as clear indicators as you can get. But it really isn’t a … Continue reading →

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On the shelf: Jack Finney’s Time and Again

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Patrick Lennon

I like browsing in second-hand bookshops. I realize that more and more. I haven’t been to a ‘regular’ bookshop in a long time. It’s not that I don’t like first-hand bookshops (if you can call them that). I do, but … Continue reading →

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