It is always a happy time of year when what must be one of everyone’s favourite book events – 20 Books of…

Reading In Memory of Memory made me think about how we consider ours and our relatives’ recollections not only of far-off things,…

Liverpool’s past and present weaves itself around Jack Byrne’s debut novel Under the Bridge. The first part of his Liverpool Mysteries series,…

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…

Am really very excited for Reading Independent Publishers Month, which is being hosted by Kaggsy and Lizzy. It seems like the last few…

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…

This week’s prompt for Nonfiction November is to ‘be the expert’ and ‘share three or more books on a single topic that…