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The week after this one, from 21-27 April, it\u2019s the next year reading club hosted by Kaggsy<\/a> and Simon<\/a>: The 1952 Club.<\/strong> As I was going through lists of possible books to read, it struck me there must be five I\u2019ve already reviewed on this blog \u2013 so time for a new \u2018Five Feat\u2026\u2019 post, I also have five in my possibles pile, so you\u2019re getting two for the price of one today, as I look forward to the reading week. I\u2019ll begin with five 1952 books I\u2019ve read and enjoyed\u2026<\/p>\n

The Killer Inside Me<\/a><\/em> by Jim Thompson<\/strong><\/p>\n

A truly dark novel of revenge told in the first person that set the scene for so many that followed. Thompson\u2019s modern classic follows Deputy Lou Ford, whom everyone thinks is a good man, but he lets his sickness overwhelm him as he goes on a killing spree to avenge the death of his brother, deluding himself that he won\u2019t be caught. It\u2019s something that I found the 2010 film too sick, but I could cope with Ford\u2019s descriptions of his killings on the page! Also\u00a0The Old Man & The Sea<\/em>\u00a0by Hemingway<\/p>\n

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader<\/a><\/em> by C.S. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n

The third Narnia book sends Susan and Peter off somewhere, and introduces a new character to go on an adventure with Lucy and Edmund, cousin Eustace, and together they enter Narnia through a painting of a ship at their aunt and uncle\u2019s. The ship is that of Prince Caspian, and soon they\u2019re off on a quest to find the missing Lords. Eustace gets turned into a dragon at one stage, Aslan helps with the reversal \u2013 natch. Spoilt for me by a heavy-handed ending, but it\u2019s far better than Prince Caspian<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Vanish in an Instant<\/a><\/em> by Margaret Millar<\/strong><\/p>\n

Millar was born in Canada, but lived mostly in California with her husband, the crime author Ross Macdonald. Millar wrote loads of novels between the 1940s and 1980s, specialising in psychological dramas that explored women\u2019s minds, and that is very much to the fore in this book. Claude Margolis is found murdered in the snow, stabbed multiple times in his neck. It\u2019s the middle of the night, and a quarter of a mile away Virginia Barkeley is also found, drunk and covered with blood. To the small-town police, it appears an open and shut case \u2013 Margolis is well-known for his philandering, they say Virginia was his latest mistress. But Meecham, the local lawyer isn\u2019t so sure. This was a great, suspenseful read, and I\u2019d love to read the other two of Millar\u2019s books that Pushkin Vertigo have published.<\/p>\n

A Buyer\u2019s Market<\/a><\/em> by Anthony Powell<\/strong><\/p>\n

Having met the key characters in the previous volume A Question of Upbringing<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, in the second book in the sequence It\u2019s now the late 1920s and Jenkins is living and working in London for a publisher of art books. Having concentrated upon the old boys\u2019 network in the first novel and making useful contacts to get one\u2019s career kick-started, volume two is largely concerned with establishing oneself in society and finding a mate. One seeming obstacle to his progress is his continued association with Widmerpool, who crops up all over the place like an eternal gooseberrysubjected to several humiliations throughout the novel and laughed at by his companions; Nick to his credit, although ever the observer, doesn\u2019t join in.\u00a0In their twenties, life is one long social whirl for these Bright Young Things moving in the higher echelons of society \u2013 it really is a buyer\u2019s market.<\/p>\n

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However, I could only find 4 that I reviewed \u2013 so here are a few more 1952 books I\u2019ve read and enjoyed but not featured on the blog.<\/p>\n