I really enjoyed watching the new film The Dig in March, so I thought I would read the book it was based on – The…
The Autumn of the Ace by Louis de Bernieres is the final book in the wonderful trilogy that began with The Dust that Falls from…
Anyone contemplating New Year’s resolutions and thinking about how they ought to live their life differently should think about reading Gabriel’s Angel by Mark Radcliffe. Gabriel…
Just before Christmas I read The Underground Man by Mick Jackson, which had been on my Kindle for a while, and which I was determined…
When I saw that Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad, a fantastic novel that I read a few years ago (see my blog), had…
One of the first books I read coming out of the first lockdown was The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (see my blog) and Philippa…
I have not enjoyed a book as much as I enjoyed Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo for a very long time. It’s immediately clear why…
Queenie is the brilliant debut novel by Candice Carty-Williams about a young, black woman in south London dealing with work, friends and sex, whilst battling against unrelenting…
I have been following the careers of the Clintons since the mid 1990s (see my blogs on What Happened, Hard Choices and Reading Politics), so when I heard about the…
I finished reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens on a weekend in Bath with some friends last weekend and I couldn’t get into the…
I love reading and always have. I'm also a big fan of writing, hence writing a blog about reading. I read lots for both work and pleasure and thankfully the boundary between the two is nicely blurred.
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