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…

Rose Tremain is a writer who has an impressive trunk of material. In the collection of short stories, The American Lover, she…

There could be many potential answers to the question, ‘What is Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook about?’ Almost like a literary Rorschach…

Despite the almost universal outpouring of joy over The Comet Seekers, Helen Sedgwick’s tale of love and loss across the centuries and generations…

Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers was given to me by a friend who understands I have a fixation on…

Children have a fixation with the downright gruesome. I found this out when I recently re-discovered the picture book Struwwelpeter by Heinrich…

My review of How to Travel Without Seeing by Andres Neuman is now up at Minor Literature[s]. A break-neck record of musings,…

Secrets of the Sea House by Elisabeth Gifford is a tale of survival. Surviving the most terrible events and moving through fear…