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Changing my Mind - Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith by dovegreyreader scribbles on Oct 28, 2009Changing My Mind, the occasional essays of Zadie Smith and published by Penguin, won't actually be in the bookshops until November 26th and time to confess that until now I have failed miserably with Zadie Smith's fiction, but I plan...

Dyeing by dovegreyreader scribbles on Oct 27, 2009This last week I have been mostly tidying and dyeing and please note the careful placement of that 'e'. Rev, Cheryl's into dyeing (again note the 'e') and on my recent visit to Cambridge and the vicarage I was completely...

An Education by Lynn Barber by dovegreyreader scribbles on Jul 9, 2009Events kick off today at Dartington Ways With Words, Salley Vickers this afternoon, so fasten your seat belts and we'll be off across Dartmoor any minute and I'm meant to be reading all those books ahead of myself, so that...

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin by dovegreyreader scribbles on Jun 14, 2009I've refrained from mentioning the B word so far this year but it's impossible not to be thinking about the Booker prize long list with current reading, so many big hitters giving us great big books at the moment and...

Eric Arthur Blair by dovegreyreader scribbles on Jun 3, 2009It's safe, and rather embarrassingly so, to say that what I truly know for sure about George Orwell could be inscribed on the back of a postage stamp, and not a large one at that, perhaps a Cape of Good...

Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun by dovegreyreader scribbles on Mar 25, 2009My love for the writing of Irmgard Keum remains undiminished even if the books are devilishly difficult to get hold of in translation. First discovered thanks to a friend's recommend of The Artificial Silk Girl, then I found a copy...