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, …
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, …
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 …
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 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 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 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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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