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Barry Unsworth (1)

Morality Play by Barry Unsworth

April 3, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“It was a death that began it all and another death that led us on.” There’s a whole sub-genre of medieval mystery novels, but there’s probably fewer medieval mystery novels about medieval mystery plays. Or in this case a mix of morality and mystery plays. Though I would bet within the 20 plus Brother Cadfael novels, there’s at least one about morality and mystery plays  This is a short novel by Barry Unsworth, who won the Booker Prize for his very long novel Sacred Hunger, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Barry Unsworth

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:204 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Barry Unsworth ·
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Lord of the World

Pascali's Island by Barry Unsworth

May 14, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A Turkish spy is living on a Greek island spying for the Ottoman Empire in 1908. He sends small little reports about the comings and goings of the island, and while he thinks and understands that no one reads these reports, he’s vigilant and exact in his reporting. He has fallen in love, and when a curious and mysterious and deceptive Englishman shows up on the island, things begin to spiral for the spy. So this is a novel that I like a lot in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Barry Unsworth, pascali's island

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:252 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Barry Unsworth, pascali's island ·
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