Book Reviews

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,…

This The Undiscovered Country review feels long overdue, as I have been cheering the book on ever since reading the synopsis back…

If you like the idea of regularly supporting one independent publisher and also of receiving more books than you might read in…

I want to start this Convenience Store Woman review with some memories of Japan’s convenience stores. Like many new arrivals, I quickly…