Book Reviews

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 …

Unravelling a mystery is the opportunity not only for a gripping ‘whodunit’ but also a deep dive into Japanese society and its …

I read Leonard and Hungry Paul over the week of the US Election, while avoiding many news sources and if concentrating has …