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Diane Banks
May 19, 20213 min read
The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate
Hamish Hamilton, 1980; Penguin Classics, 2007 I ordered this modern classic, which I’ve never read, for two reasons: (i) there are an...
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Diane Banks
Apr 27, 20214 min read
The Whitney Women and the Museum they Made by Flora Miller Biddle
Arcade Publishing, 1999 I’d visited the Whitney Museum a couple of times at its old Madison Avenue location, and was pleased to find...
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Diane Banks
Apr 5, 20213 min read
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
HarperCollins, 2019 I’m not a big reader of crime fiction, as I generally don’t care whodunnit. I find the Gone Girls and Girl on a...
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Diane Banks
Mar 29, 20214 min read
Capitalism in America: a History by Alan Greenspan & Adrian Wooldridge
Allen Lane, 2018 I read half of this two years ago, in advance of chairing a most enjoyable dinner with Economist political editor Adrian...
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Diane Banks
Mar 16, 20214 min read
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Gollancz, 2011 (and limited Orion author party edition, 2014) For a number of years, in the days when we did such things, every February...
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Diane Banks
Mar 1, 20214 min read
Social Class in the 21st Century by Mike Savage
Plus The British Worker by Ferdinand Zweig & The Rise of the Meritocracy 1870-2033 by Michael Young Pelican Books 2015, 1952 & 1961 This...
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Diane Banks
Feb 11, 20213 min read
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
Doubleday, 2018 Having enjoyed Diane Setterfield’s hugely successful debut The Thirteenth Tale back in 2006 (subsequently adapted by...
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Diane Banks
Dec 29, 20207 min read
A Notable Woman by Jean Lucey Pratt (ed Simon Garfield)
Canongate, 2015 (pb 2016) This diary of an ostensibly unremarkable woman is the most extraordinary book I’ve read this year. Prolific...
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Diane Banks
Nov 23, 20204 min read
The Card by Arnold Bennett
Public Domain Books (originally Methuen, February 1911) I have a penchant for that particular genre of turn-of-the-(twentieth)-century...
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Diane Banks
Oct 25, 20203 min read
For the Record by David Cameron
William Collins, October 2020 A year after publication, three years since it was supposed to be published, a month after the paperback,...
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Diane Banks
Aug 3, 20203 min read
The Brideship Wife by Leslie Howard
Simon & Schuster Canada, May 2020 This debut set in 19th century British Columba intrigued me as I’ve spent some time researching the...
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Diane Banks
Jul 12, 20204 min read
Hagar of Homerton by Alice Dudeney
C Arthur Pearson, 1898 I first came across Alice Dudeney whilst working with Damian Collins on his biography of Sir Philip Sassoon five...
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Diane Banks
Jul 5, 20204 min read
Dressed for War: the Story of Audrey Withers, Vogue Editor Extraordinaire by Julie Summers
Simon & Schuster, February 2020 This is another excellent biography of a woman who was pivotal to history but whose contribution has been...
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