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28 March 2025

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    House of Names

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    House of Names is a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra, Iphigenia and Agamemnon.

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    The Song of Achilles

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    It’s called The Song of Achilles.

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    Grendel

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    Grendel was published in 1971, and I was absolutely astonished by the idea that you could take a poem like Beowulf and tell it from a different point of view.

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    The Once and Future King

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    You know, there are some books that you read last month and you can barely remember what they were about, but I remember very specifically reading The Once and Future King.

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16 October 2020

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    The American Senator

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    I was thinking about this today with the first book I chose, The American Senator.

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    The Way We Live Now

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    The Way We Live Now is about a swindler or confidence trickster, Augustus Melmotte, who bears a strong resemblance to Robert Maxwell, if you remember him.

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    The Eustace Diamonds

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    The Eustace Diamonds is part of the Palliser sequence, but I read the Pallisers out of sequence and it was not a problem.

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    Miss Mackenzie

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    In one of the books, Miss Mackenzie, Miss Mackenzie is trying to decide between three suitors and one suitor, sadly, is wearing bright yellow kid gloves.

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    Barchester Towers

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    Barchester Towers as well, because it introduces you to a lot of his most famous characters.

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