book review

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

I once wrote that a reader could have enough of thinking about a character’s breasts, but I will have to change my …

Like many of you who are joining in with Women in Translation Month, I am keen to read Breasts and Eggs by …

A few years ago, I realised that my natural interest in books written in England in the 1920s and 30s was leading …

First published in 1959 with the title Primera Memoria, Ana María Matute’s novel The Island has recently been published in English by …

I loved Fernando Sdrigotti’s short story Jolts when it appeared in 3am Magazine in 2015. Now five years have whipped by and …

In my 20 Books of Summer ’20 post I noted that there were a number of reading challenges happening in June and …

This The Crow Road review is about cosy reads. That sounds like a harsh term when viewed in isolation, but it’s one …

Territory of Light was on many best of the year lists in 2019 – and is on my to be read list …

In his introduction to The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, Murakami Haruki describes the collection as giving ‘the same kind of …