Historical fiction is the ultimate 2-for-1
There is plenty to be learnt from fiction, where you can inhabit someone else’s reality for a time. But when…
There is plenty to be learnt from fiction, where you can inhabit someone else’s reality for a time. But when…
Some books are all about character, while others depend on their plot. Then there is another type of book altogether…
In my mind, my favourite writers are organised in a heirarchy of how desperately I will try to get my…
I have to admit that I felt more than a little uneasy reading Katherine Dunn’s cult classic, Geek Love ……
There are a lot of reasons to disagree at the moment. We can argue endlessly about the advantages and disadvantages…
The last book I read was fabulous. Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women shocked me, and moved me, and changed me. When…
I visited the charity shop earlier in the week and was thrilled to find Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies,…
I’m about to start reading The Dictionary of Lost Words and I can’t get into it quickly enough. You see,…
Elliot Perlman’s Maybe the Horse Will Talk is entirely different from his other books I have read – Three Dollars…
Like last year, when it took me months to plough through The Brothers Karamazov, this year my reading has been…