Book Reviews

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…

One of the things that I have found weirdest throughout the time of COVID-19 has been a calling back to the ‘Blitz…

I have been looking forward to this week’s prompt for Nonfiction November. Over to this week’s host, Julz at Julz Reads: This…

My first review for Nonfiction November 2020 is We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post-war Britain by…

The 1956 Club inspired this The Lonely Londoners review, but although Sam Selvon vividly conveys ’50s London via a group of recently…

This Singapore Grip review was prompted by the announcement of a new six-part adaptation for ITV of J. G. Farrell’s book, which…