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I have been working at John Sandoe's since August 1993, a refugee from a brief 'career' working for a now defunct French bank (I'd like to think I played my part in its downfall, but that would be stretching the bounds of plausibility).  Like many others who have come to work here, I pretty soon couldn't imagine being anywhere else.

In 2008 I was a judge for the fiction category of the Costa Book Awards - which involved reading a huge number of books in a relatively short period of time.  The book we selected as our winner, The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry, went on to win the overall prize - we we delighted, and not at all triumphant, as you can imagine...

Recent Reviews

bulletThe Minotaur   Barbara Vine pbk £7.99
bulletBlue Rondo   John Lawton pbk £6.99
bulletIf Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things   Jon McGregor pbk £7.99
bulletThe Winter Queen   Boris Akunin hbk £9.99pbk £6.99
bulletChopin's Funeral   Benita Eisler pbk £7.99
bulletGulag: A History Of The Soviet Camps   Anne Applebaum pbk £10.99
bulletBel Canto   Ann Patchett pbk £7.99
bulletYouth   J M Coetzee hbk £14.99pbk £7.99
bulletIn The Absence Of Men   Philippe Besson pbk £7.99
bulletDefying Hitler: A Memoir   Sebastian Haffner pbk £7.99

 

 

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