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No 421 Canal Dreams by Iain Banks for #BanksRead2021

When I saw that Annabel was hosting a week long celebration of the work of Iain Banks, called BanksRead, I was very keen to join in. Iain Banks was one of my Dads’ favourite writers and his suggestion that I try The Wasp Factory when I was sixteen, has probably had quite the influence on…

No 422 Double Indemnity by James M Cain #1936Club

I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn’t have the money and I didn’t have the woman. I decided to read Double Indemnity for Karen and Simon’s 1936 Club, but have just realised that it may not be eligible as the novel was originally published in 1943. However, it did appear…

No 423 Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley

As it’s title would suggest, the truth never fully comes to light in John Patrick Shanley’s 2004 play that won the Pulitzer Prize and eight Tony Awards before being turned into a film starring Amy Adams, the late Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep. The play is set in 1964 in the offices and garden…