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The Booker-longlisted author on the dazzling wordplay of Nabokov, feeling bemused by Haruki Murakami and struggling to finish DickensThe book I am currently […]

Battle plans. Things that last about as long as it takes for the first player to start swinging their weapon.

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I’d simply remove that from your to-do list. Replace it with,How do I earn my own respect?If you like, trust and respect yourself, nobody else’s opinion mat […]

It’s marvellous. I’m so glad it is a family thing for you (and them).

No, you aren’t misremembering. It’s puzzled me since I wrote Overture.

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That’s like saying “Are authors vegan?” or “Are authors into sports?” Some are, some aren’t. I’m not really – it always seems to me like the smartest thing […]

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Joke explainer: In JavaScript, the “+” joins two strings into one. 04 would be taken as a two-character string and so you would get “1104” rather than the 15 you […]

A young female graduate is blind to the grim truth about the older man she falls for when she takes a job on his farm in the PyreneesContrary to its title’s i […]

The Love Song Of M Religiosa by Nibedita Sen in Kaleidotrope A Mantis is kept in a laboratory. He yearns for She, another mantis in another tank. He is keen to […]

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Da Vinci’s Cat. Catherine Gilbert Murdock. 2021. [May] 278 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: Federico leaped to his feet, reaching for his knife though he […]

In this, the 13th outing, the beans (who still need names) fail to have much luck. We have also discovered which party member preemptively shouts “I’m looting the […]

Octopussy Possibly the nadir of Roger Moore’s term as James Bond, and yet there’s something here! The internet claims it first appeared on TV in 1988 when I sho […]

Rescue. Jennifer A. Nielsen. 2021. [March] 400 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: Papa stood at the gate by the road and waved goodbye. He wanted me to wave […]

Anne of Manhattan. Brina Starler. 2021. 327 pages. [Source: Library] First sentence: If there was one thing Anne Shirley would stand firm against all arguments, it […]

This is the 12th Beans in Dungeons episode. There is nothing particularly special about that other than 12 is a highly composite number. That and this is the first […]

Monster Of The Week is Eldritche, a tentacled monstrosity from the depths of space, promises to repay £10 “before history ends”, has had a bit of trouble recently […]

Beans on strike. One of the beans refuses to rejoin the fight.

Laughter Among The Trees by Suzan Palumbo in The Dark Ana, an immigrant to Canada is always second to her younger sister Sab who was born there. Then Sab vanishes […]