this book consists of columns written by julian barnes for the new yorker magazine. interesting events from the not-so-very-distant british history.

promised to myntti.

I got this book in trade from sikuriina. Thanks!

Since 1990 Julian Barnes has written a regular 'Letter from London' for the New Yorker magazine. These already celebrated pieces cover subjects as diverse as Lloyd's insurance disaster, the rise and fall of Margaret Thatcher, the troubles of the Royal Family and of the hapless Nigel Short in his battle with Gary Kasparov in the 1993 World Chess Finals. With an incisive assessment of Salman Rushdie's plight and an analysis of the implications of being linked to the Continent via the Channel Tunnel, Letters from London provides a vivid and telling portrait of Britain in the Nineties.

I finally read this books thanks to Tarna's Mt TBR Mining Challenge. Because I'm not the most avid follower of things political, I wasn't particularly interested in the "rise and fall of Margaret Thatcher" or the Lloyd's insurance disaster. To be honest, I found the book rather boring...

22.5. I picked the book up in the local bookcrossing meeting that took place this evening. Mainly because I picked up another book by the same author from OBCZ in Natural History Museum in London in the end of April and despite myntti's not so enthusiastic comments about it :).

Reserved to be released in the BookCrossing exhibition in Nokia Library.

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