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Our Game by John le Carré

What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe

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The Sirens Of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

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CollectionsYour library (2,744), Currently reading (4), To read (194), All collections (2,744)

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About meRecent PhD in Welsh Literature. Lecturer in English, Media and Politics, Wolves Uni. Keen fencer.
The reader (right) is life-size and above an archway at Vilnius University.

"To all appearance the Irish really have no sexual life, beyond the minimum necessary to perpetuate their cantankerous species." Ussher, The Face and Mind of Ireland, 1949.

About my libraryWelsh lit, working-class lit, hard s-f, lit fiction, history, socialism, Irish politics, UK/European/US politics, modern poetry, all sorts of other stuff except crime/horror.

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Currently readingThe Crystal Prison by Robin Jarvis
Welsh Phrases for Learners by Leonard Hayles
Bonfires on the Hillside: An Eyewitness Account of Political Upheaval in Northern Ireland by James Kelly
"O.M." A Memoir by Sir Alfred T. Davies (ed.)

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Hello there,
just having a nose at your library. 151 books to read? That has got to be a pretty conservative estimate.

posted by benjaminjudge at 5:38 am (EST) on Jul 29, 2009

Aidan, you're one of the few people to understand my email address - it tends to annoy most people! I think the books we do share are mainly working-class fiction and criticism. There are also a number of Welsh works (particlularly Rhys Davies) because Katie Gramich was one of my PhD supervisors. As I just include them as I think of them, though, I'm adding all the time. Britton is worth looking into, although at the moment I'm being sidetracked by a wealth of (often obscure) American Southern fiction.

Tony

posted by tonyshaw14 at 4:46 am (EST) on May 26, 2009

It's not the neighbour's wifi anymore. As the laptop seemed to be working ok I plugged it back into the modem, and it's working ok. Another victory for my philosophy of life - leave things alone until they fix themselves!

posted by marxones at 10:34 am (EST) on May 24, 2009

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