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Graham Norton (1) (1963–)

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15+ Works 1,658 Membros 78 Críticas 1 Favorited

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Obras por Graham Norton

Holding (2016) 542 exemplares
A Keeper (2018) 374 exemplares
Home Stretch (2020) 287 exemplares
So Me (2004) 123 exemplares
Forever Home (2022) 108 exemplares
The Swimmer (2022) 40 exemplares
Ask Graham (2010) 30 exemplares
20th Century Icons: Gay (1999) 5 exemplares
The Best of So Graham Norton (2004) 5 exemplares
Live at the Roundhouse (2006) 4 exemplares
The Graham Norton Book Club (2021) 3 exemplares
Graham Norton's Big Apple (2005) 2 exemplares
Elton John - Uncensored — Narrador — 2 exemplares

Associated Works

Soul [2020 film] (2020) — Actor — 110 exemplares
The Queer Bible (2020) — Contribuidor; Narrador, algumas edições60 exemplares
Another Gay Movie [2006 film] (2006) — Actor — 50 exemplares
pet shop boys, documentary — Narrador — 1 exemplar

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Yikes. What could have been a solid little mystery was buried under unnecessary fluff. A small Irish town full of dull, terrible, sexually repressed people is jostled by the discovery of some human remains. I could’ve lived my whole life and not had Graham Norton read… things to me. I’ll never be the same.
 
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ilkjen | 38 outras críticas | Feb 20, 2024 |
You will note that this is the second time I have read this novel. My earlier review is here ( I first read it about 3 years ago)

This time I am reading it for discussion with my U3A Crime Fiction group. This is the first book we are reading this year, and I think they will enjoy it.

We will be basing some of our discussion on some questions listed at The Reading Agency (listed on Amazon)

Duneen is a quiet place, far enough from the big towns to have kept its own rhythms. Its residents include cast down policeman PJ who lives a lonely, uneventful life punctuated only by the next meal – until now; the beautiful and mysterious family of three spinster sisters each with their own secrets and
sorrows; and of course, the town's gossip who think she knows the answers. When a grim discovery is made on a building site up by the old school, it becomes the catalyst for half lived secrets and seething rivalries to come to light and this silent, once innocent and repressed-seeming town is revealed to have
a much darker, hungrier undertow

The other resources that I've found which we may use in our discussion are some short You Tube videos:

Graham Norton reading an extract
Character introduction : Evelyn Ross

Both of these videos comment on the significance of the novel's title.

My rating: 4.5

I've also read

4.6, HOME STRETCH
… (mais)
½
 
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smik | 38 outras críticas | Feb 10, 2024 |
Right from the start I was hooked on this book and read it quite quickly despite the busyness of the season. Characters, setting, and of course the unfolding of their lives and their secrets was all very enjoyable. A good first novel.
 
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thesmellofbooks | 38 outras críticas | Dec 27, 2023 |
Graham Norton is one of those folks from the UK who seems able to turn his hand to anything. I’ve long been a fan of his talk show- he is a genius at putting even balky Americans at ease and he exudes good nature. So when I heard he’d written several books (his first, Holding, a prize winner) I knew I’d have to read them.
This was unexpected. Extremely well-written, which I did expect, but dark in a truly creepy way.
I don’t want to get too much into the plot for fear of spoiling it, but suffice to say, isolated areas near moors are involved, plus a cast of seriously sad and disturbed people. It all starts out seeming like a nice generational story, but as it goes on and the fibres get tangled about, the fog rolls in and suddenly you find yourself in a gothic horror.
Expertly switching between present and past keeps things pulling you along, until the final, somewhat rushed, ending.
A fun ride and it kept me up well past my bedtime to get to the end.
It’s high residue, too- the location is one that sticks in your head and I can almost feel the damp seeping from the walls, the despair in the wallpaper…
I did get the feeling the ending was squashed in as if the author was racing to finish the tale but I can understand the impulse as the reader races on, too.
Well worth a read and now I shall have to go read his others. Such a clever fellow and my goodness he is full of energy. Like Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, someone I would like at my ideal dinner table.
… (mais)
 
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Dabble58 | 23 outras críticas | Nov 11, 2023 |

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Obras
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Membros
1,658
Popularidade
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78
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