This Spinning World, a Review

Books for March, QUAD, Alumni Books for the Month, Oxford Alumni Association

"What a lovely book. The author has accumulated 43 short fictional stories encompassing a vast range of topics but with a steady accumulation of niche insights about Albanian folk music, Greek islands and imagined diplomatic underdog heroes who are ‘out there’ trying to find something out, somewhere around the end of the Cold War. My favourite one is called ‘Reward!’ No plot spoilers here but there is perennial awareness of and reference to the mothership, Oxford. Tom, our underdog diplomat hero, recently and painfully returned to chilly London from an exotic posting (the frisson of that so beautifully expressed for alumni who ‘got away,’ only to have to ‘come back’) decides to quit his Pall Mall club to save money. ‘He used the club’s crested notepaper to express his regret that he wished to resign, ‘in order to join another more clubbable club which offered female members full equal rights with the men.’" Richard Lofthouse

To order a copy, please contact the publisher: colensobooks@gmail.com

The quoted price in the review is incorrect. The correct price is £18.50

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