Second World War

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

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

This The Comrade from Milan review came via a Verso Book Club subscription, which I recommend if you are into discovering new …

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

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

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

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

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

In autumn in 1930s Germany, the apples are about to be harvested, in town shifts are starting. But at Westhofen concentration camp, …

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