Book Reviews

The latest club read hosted by Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings and Stuck in a Book is for books published in 1976 and happily,…

This Kim Jiyoung Born 1982 review is a little late as I started reading Cho Nam-Joo’s novel as part of 20 Books…

It is rare to find a book where you are completely familiar with its settings and themes from the first page, where…

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…

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