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Down Nostalgia Road……

The pile of books to read for review grows bigger, and keeping pace with that is the slightly smaller pile of books to read for pleasure. Last week, I decided I need to clean my palate, books-wise. And so I went back to three all-time favourite authors: Alistair Maclean, Georgette Heyer and Frank Richards. Between…

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Book review: Hurree Jamset Ram Singh in the Billy Bunter books

I wonder if anyone else on here was as conflicted about the character Hurree Jamset Ram Singh of the Billy Bunter books, he of the supposedly sage and incomprehensible pronouncements like “the wishfulness of the jug that goes to the well is terrific.“ Apart from the confusion regarding that name, which inferred the character was…

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