In my 20 Books of Summer ’20 post I noted that there were a number of reading challenges happening in June and…
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This is about cosy reads. That sounds like a harsh term when viewed in isolation, but it’s one I like to use.…
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The 1920 Club has been happening this week, with many good choices of books to read – including the first Agatha Christie…
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Territory of Light was on many best of the year lists in 2019 – and is on my to be read list…
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In his introduction to The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, Murakami Haruki describes the collection as giving ‘the same kind of…
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There’s a school of thought that The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger’s classic tale of teenage angst, has the shortest of windows.…
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In autumn in 1930s Germany, the apples are about to be harvested, in town shifts are starting. But at Westhofen concentration camp,…
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October is the UK’s Black History Month and so Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi was a serendipitous find at the library last week.…
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If you were captivated by the recent HBO series, Chernobyl, and especially the story of Lyudmila Ignatenko and her husband, Vasily, one…
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When Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2015, the reports noted that English translations of her work were ‘sparse.’ Happily…
