Book Review – Harry Mottram

Fri. Jun 20th, 2025

Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: no plot, nothing happens and we still don’t know how you go to the toilet in space in Samantha Harvey’s Orbital – as we go round the earth 16 times

May 1, 2025 harrymottram

Book Review: Orbital by Samantha Harvey: The 2024 Booker Prize winning novel is something of a contradiction since it’s not…

Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: John Hillaby’s ‘lyrical, revealing and candid account’ of his Journey Through Britain – in a country much changed since 1968 when it was published

Feb 23, 2025 harrymottram

Book Review: Journey Through Britain. By John Hillaby Britain was different in the late 1960s. Most chaps wore jackets and…

Harry Mottram Book Review: Sun, sea, sex and manipulative narrators in Francois Sagan’s novels Bonjour Tritesse and Un certain sourire

Oct 9, 2024 harrymottram

Book Review: Francois Sagan’s Bonjour Tritesse (Hello Sadness) and Un certain sourire (A Certain Smile), Penguin edition. By Harry Mottram: She…

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