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BOOK OF THE MONTH ARCHIVE January 2012 | 
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| Joanna Lumley All Passion Spent, by Vita Sackville West "I had the great pleasure of writing a new foreword to this remarkably funny and enchanting book: a grand old woman, recently widowed, revewals an unexpectedly independent side of her nature; her life, and that of her grasping family, changes direction as she follows her heart and memories. It makes growing old make sense" To give this book or read more, please click here | December 2011 | 
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| Colin Firth The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa "The translation in itself is a masterpiece. The Death of a Prince is an unforgettable passage which changed my perspective on many things. One of the few books I return to endlessly." To give this book or read more, please click here | November 2011
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| Julian Barnes The Beginning of Spring, by Penelope Fitzgerald "Penelope Fitzgerald had absolutely no public persona during her lifetime, which meant that she was, and remains, underrated. But her last four novels - Innocence, The Beginning of Spring, The Gate of Angels and The Blue Flower - are all masterpieces, and if posterity has any sense she will come to be regarded as the best British novelist of the period 1950-2000." To give this book or read more, please click here | | October 2011 |  |  | Martin Rees The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes "I think an appropriate choice would be Richard Holmes's The Age of Wonder. It's in effect a collective biography of Banks, Herschel, Davy etc. and is a superb evocation of an era when science was truly a part of general culture." To give this book or read more, please click here | | September 2011 |  |  | Howard Jacobson Karoo by Steve Tesich "If you haven't read Karoo, read it. Drop whatever else you're reading. It won't be as good as Karoo. It certainly won't be as funny. .." To give this book or read more, please click here | | August 2011 |  |  | Dominic West A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor "When Patrick Leigh Fermor died three weeks ago I felt a particular twinge of regret and sadness which was in part a nostalgia for his youth and mine. " To give this book or read more, please click here | | July 2011 |  |  | Antonia Fraser DBE: Love and Summer by William Trevor "A book I consider to be a moving masterpiece." To give this book or read more, please click here
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