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‘Are we talking about one body or two?’ Nilson replied, ‘Fifteen or sixteen, since 1978.’

Killing for Company by Brian Masters

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In February 1983, the residents of 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill started having problems with their drains. Calling out a plumber, the blockage would turn out to be much, much worse than the usual toilet blockages, as well as accounting for the terrible smell that had been permeating the house for some time. The resident in the attic flat had been flushing human flesh. Quickly arrested, Dennis Nilsen was extremely forthcoming with the police. As well as immediately copping to having bodies hid in his wardrobe awaiting disposal, police asked him if they were dealing with one body or […]

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6/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:41 |

Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?

Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter

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A quick search suggests that this book has been reviewed for Cannonball at least eight times already, so it’s not like anything I say about the book is likely to be new or revolutionary (see what I did there). I don’t think there was ever any doubt that I was going to love this book, considering just how much I love the musical. I don’t remember exactly when I first heard about Hamilton, but it’s likely to be early in 2016 (I got this as a birthday gift that year from my best friend, and then postponed reading it until […]

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6/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:45 |

does he have a horse? is that what this is about? does he have a sword gun or a railroad or a ..a nice hat or something?

Texts From Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg

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I stumbled upon Ortberg’s hilarious “How to Tell if You are in a Jane Austen Novel”  a while back on The Toast  web site so when this popped up as a Goodreads recommendation I took it to heart.  A quick search of the CBR site tells me that quite a few of you have laugh snorted through this one. It’s a difficult one to review and I’m very tempted to just say, it’s very funny so go read it,  but there is that pesky 250 word minimum for reviews that needs to be addressed, so…. The basics here are as follows: […]

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6/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:29 |

“There is an English dream of a warm summer evening on a branch-line train”

The Kingdom By The Sea by Paul Theroux

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I’ve had this sat on my kindle for the longest time – I read Mosquito Coast (and loved it) years ago, and so thought I’d give Theroux’s travel writing a go. Sat on a beach in Portwrinkle on a glorious day, a jaunt around the British coast seemed just the ticket. Having already lived in London for years by that point, Theroux decided to travel clockwise around the British coast as a way of getting to know the country better. Starting at the bottom of the south-east coast, just a short train trip away from his home, Theroux picks his […]

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6/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:37 |

Is she talking about me?

Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen

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In a book with a title that could well have (and sometimes has) been specifically directed at me, Anne Helen Petersen – a woman who regularly brightens up my internet reading – takes a look at how the behaviour of women is policed by society, using the lens of celebrity. With each chapter focusing on a different female celebrity – with a cast including an athlete, singer, politician, reality TV star and more – Petersen looks at the various aspects of their characters that have seen them break the acceptable mould of womanhood, and how each woman is navigating her […]

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5/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:33 |

Triflers need not apply

Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter

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I had no idea until someone mentioned it that Amazon Prime members get to buy four (I think it’s four) pre-release books for nothing throughout a year – Hell’s Princess was my first free prime e-book as well as the first kindle edition I’ve ever seen that includes moving artwork, with newspaper photos and articles that zoom in to the pertinent parts and illustrations based on some of the content. While the newspaper parts worked well for this book, I’m not sure that the illustrations added much, although it did make me hope that I can download versions of graphic […]

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4/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:27 |

Saving their story from obscurity

Code Girls by Liza Mundy

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3.5 stars. I’ve heard so much about Bletchley Park code breakers and the Native American code talkers, that it somehow never even occurred to me that there were tons of Americans actively engaged in breaking both German and Japanese codes during World War II. Like the women at Bletchley Park, the American code women were sworn to secrecy about their work and it’s only now that their work is coming to light. Liza Mundy spent an incredible amount of time and effort tracking down women still living who were cryptanalysts during the war and interviewing them about their experiences. She […]

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4/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:38 |

I now need to bathe in bleach.

Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burns

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Sweet Fucking Jeezus.  I was 15 when bodies started being brought out of 25 Cromwell Street and, like the rest of the country, I equal parts fascinated and horrified at what else was unearthed alongside the remains of the young women that had fallen victim to Fred and Rose West. Thanks to the wall to wall media coverage that accompanied the investigation, I thought I had a fair idea of the depths of depravity that the West’s were capable of. Reading Happy Like Murderers quickly disabused me of that notion. Both from nightmarish backgrounds, with families who regularly engaged in […]

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1/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:1 |


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