nonfiction

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…

I realised that although two other recent reviews – The Comrade from Milan and Second-Hand Time – mentioned Maria Stepanova’s family history,…

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

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

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

There are so many good reading challenges around on Twitter and Instagram, but often I only realise when they are nearly over!…

If you were captivated by the recent HBO series, Chernobyl, and especially the story of Lyudmila Ignatenko and her husband, Vasily, one…

When Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2015, the reports noted that English translations of her work were ‘sparse.’ Happily…

I have often wished I could step back in time to see the Mersey in its golden years brimming with vessels setting…