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16 March 2012

Book title and author: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Reviewed by Paula Evans, Principal Library Assistant, Business and Humanities (Central Library)

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28 November 2011

Book title and author: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Reviewer: Paula Evans, Principal Library Assistant, Business and Humanities (Central Library).

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13 July 2011

Book title and author: The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

Reviewer: Paula Evans, Principal Library Assistant, Business and Humanities (Central Library).

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16 December 2010

Book title and author: Room by Emma Donoghue

Reviewer: Dan Beck, Principal Library Assistant, Business and Humanities, Central Library.

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Book corner: Ordinary Thunderstorms

19 May 2010

Debby Shorley, Director of Library Services, shares her thoughts on William Boyd’s latest novel Ordinary Thunderstorms, whose central character applies for a post at Imperial.

“Adam’s interview for a research fellowship at Imperial had gone well enough. He rewarded himself with dinner in an Italian restaurant nearby and hope he’d clinched it. But a chance conversation with a fellow diner was to change his life forever, and propel him into an extraordinary struggle to survive. Eating seagull meat, for example, was one of his least worst experiences as a down-and-out dossing under Chelsea Bridge!

William Boyd’s latest novel Ordinary Thunderstorms shows how normal lives can so easily go horribly wrong. It also paints a scary picture of the barely organised chaos of today’s London – from suave South Kensington to distinctly skaggy Rotherhithe.

This novel really is unputdownable – and, as far as I know, a rare example of Imperial featured in a work of fiction. As ever Boyd is far too sophisticated to offer us a moral – but do remember: never remove a knife from a stab wound – for there lies the road to perdition.”

To read Ordinary Thunderstorms, published in 2009 by Bloomsbury, visit the Central Library, code: 800 BOY

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