October is the UK’s Black History Month and so Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi was a serendipitous find at the library last week. …
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If you were captivated by the recent HBO series, Chernobyl, and especially the story of Lyudmila Ignatenko and her husband, Vasily, one …
When Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2015, the reports noted that English translations of her work were ‘sparse.’ Happily …
There aren’t enough books out there like What About Reb, so be warned that when you finish reading it, you are likely …
The film channel here in Japan likes to show things in sequence, so it was that I spent a recent winter’s evening …
Sexy self-help I have always thought the term, ‘self-help’ in the book sections sounds dirty. A sub-genre of a kink in pornography. …
Technologic A summer holiday should be a good opportunity to step away from the technology which can dominate our attention through the …
It is probably a little too late for you to read The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power by Alex Nunns before …
The Great Passage by Shion Miura is a lovely book and you must read it. If you like Japan and books – …
It was quite a surprise, on finishing Hotel du Lac, to learn that it was probably set around the time it was …