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The Judas Tree

Posted by Paul Samael on Tuesday, October 16, 2012, In : Book reviews 



Patricia Le Roy is an established novelist – she has at least 8 books to her name and I gather that one of them (“Angels of Russia”) was the first ebook ever to be put forward for the Booker Prize. “The Judas Tree”, currently available for free on obooko, is the only one that I have read so far – but on the strength of that, I will definitely be reading some of the others.  

Its starting point is the death of a French woman, Anne, who was (seemingly) happily married to Matthias, an...

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Besserwisser

Posted by Paul Samael on Sunday, July 29, 2012, In : Book reviews 

 

UPDATE 1.2017:  Sadly, this book is no longer available on Smashwords or elsewhere so far as I can see - which is a pity.

This novel by Steve Anderson has already received a number of positive reviews on Smashwords and elsewhere, but I was also drawn to it for personal reasons – of which, more later.

The starting point of the novel is simple: after one beer too many at the Munich Oktoberfest, our rather hapless hero, Gordy, is unable to resist passing himself off as a Fulbright scholar, ...


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Paul Samael Welcome to my blog, "Publishing Waste" which will either (a) chronicle my heroic efforts to self-publish my own fiction; or (b) demonstrate beyond a scintilla of doubt the utter futility of (a). And along the way, I will also be doing some reviews of other people's books and occasionally blogging about other stuff.
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