Book Reviews

Libraries gave us power – Manic Street Preachers So far in this occasional series I’ve talked about how George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four…

I once wrote that a reader could have enough of thinking about a character’s breasts, but I will have to change my…

With a title that is crying out to be the name of a band, up there with …And You Will Know Us…

Like many of you who are joining in with Women in Translation Month, I am keen to read Breasts and Eggs by…

If you like historical fiction that leans more to the historical than the fiction, how would you feel about an almost wholly…

First published in 1959 with the title Primera Memoria, Ana María Matute’s novel The Island has recently been published in English by…

I loved Fernando Sdrigotti’s short story Jolts when it appeared in 3am Magazine in 2015. Now five years have whipped by and…

Over the lockdown, Seagull Books gave away a cornucopia of world literature to readers. I chose The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus…

In my 20 Books of Summer ’20 post I noted that there were a number of reading challenges happening in June and…

This is about cosy reads. That sounds like a harsh term when viewed in isolation, but it’s one I like to use.…