The Luminaries – Eleanor Caton
I’ve had this author-signed copy of The Luminaries, winner of the 2013 Man Booker prize on my bookshelf waiting to be read for a couple of years. At 823 pages long, …
Forever Young – Steven Carroll
One of the best books I read last year was ‘A World of Other People‘ by Stephen Carroll. Forever Young is the fifth of his Glenroy series, a collection …
Us – David Nicholls
Having read and loved Nicholls’ earlier novels Starter for Ten and One Day, I have been looking forward to reading Us for ages. Us is the story of a family. Douglas is a middle-aged …
A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life caused a big stir – shortlisted for the Booker Prize, called astonishing, a masterwork, extraordinary, and so on. You get the picture. But there have been …
Perfidia – James Ellroy
Perfidia is the first novel of James Ellroy’s second LA quartet. The first quartet includes LA Confidential, which along with American Tabloid, are the other two James Ellroy novels I have read. …
Me and Mr Booker – Cory Taylor
Me and Mr Booker is Taylor’s debut novel and winner of the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize. It is a coming of age story told in first person by Martha, a 16 year old …
Six Bedrooms – Tegan Bennett Daylight
Six Bedrooms is a collection of 10 short stories about the pain of coming of age. Some are loosely connected to each other via the sad and vulnerable Tasha. I …
Bodily Harm – Margaret Atwood
At last! A spare moment to return to my much neglected blog. I read Bodily Harm quite a while ago but just have not had time to blog a review. I’m …
All That Is – James Salter
This is the first of US writer James Salter’s books I’ve read, and his first novel in 30 years, and also his last. He died earlier this year. This is …
My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
I finally found some time to read the first of the much talked about Italian writer Elena Ferrante’s (her pseudonym) Neapolitan trilogy. And it was worth the wait. The story …
