I was a Teenage Christian: Church Youth Culture in Liverpool is a guest post by Jonathan Walker. His book The Angels of…

I realised that although two other recent reviews – The Comrade from Milan and Second-Hand Time – mentioned Maria Stepanova’s family history,…

This The Comrade from Milan review came via a Verso Book Club subscription, which I recommend if you are into discovering new…

I love a good multigenerational family saga with strong women at its heart – perhaps one like Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing – and…

If you, like me, are looking forward to this year’s Women in Translation Month and anticipating all the new books and writers…

There is much to enjoy about Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, it kept me up reading later than was sensible! But while its appearance…

A post on about romance in books reminded me that I had been meaning to write this At the End of the…

It is always a happy time of year when what must be one of everyone’s favourite book events – 20 Books of…

Reading In Memory of Memory made me think about how we consider ours and our relatives’ recollections not only of far-off things,…

Liverpool’s past and present weaves itself around Jack Byrne’s debut novel Under the Bridge. The first part of his Liverpool Mysteries series,…