book review

Last month’s Tokyo Weekender Book Club inspired this The Easy Life in Kamusari review. As well as a good book club choice, …

Today would have been Vasily Grossman’s birthday and in honour of the occasion, I am trying to fit in a few chapters …

Being up to your ears in work is nothing to complain about, unless it cuts into the reading and writing time too …

October is Black History Month in the UK and so there is no better time to continue reading and loving Sam Selvon’s …

The latest club read hosted by Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings and Stuck in a Book is for books published in 1976 and happily, …

It is rare to find a book where you are completely familiar with its settings and themes from the first page, where …

I love a good multigenerational family saga with strong women at its heart – perhaps one like Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing – and …

There is much to enjoy about Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, it kept me up reading later than was sensible! But while its appearance …

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 …