Category Archives: Book Reviews

Book Reviews and Recommended Reading

Forged – Alex Verus #11 – Benedict Jacka

I started listening to this yesterday and didn’t really stop except for sleep, and so [...]

28
Jan
The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman

[...]

26
Jan
A Spell in the Wild (A Year and Six Centuries of Magic) – Alice Tarbuck

Reading this book contributed to these challenges:2021 Reading Challenge [...]

23
Jan
Fiction: A Road Trip Novel Distills America Through Gary Shteyngart’s Hipstamatic Mind
September 5, 2018

[ Peek inside Gary Shteyngart’s writing retreat, a 1930s Craftsman bungalow | “If there’s no [...]

New & Noteworthy
September 5, 2018

New this week: Jane Austen — that most enduringly popular of early-19th-century writers, chronicler of [...]

Essay: Was She J.D. Salinger’s Predator or His Prey?
September 5, 2018

For 20 years, I’ve lived with the consequences of having told that forbidden story, and [...]

Books of The Times: An Epic From Iceland, Complete With Unicorns, Angels and a Stamp-Collecting Werewolf
September 4, 2018

This book is a Norse Arabian Nights. Each section is a honeycomb. Stories are nested [...]

Doctor Who regenerates as Little Miss for Mr Men books

The casting of Jodie Whittaker as the first female Doctor Who has not just transformed [...]

04
Sep
The Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris

Reading this book contributed to these challenges:2018 Reading Challenge [...]

03
Sep
At Last – Edward St Aubyn

Reading this book contributed to these challenges:2018 Reading Challenge [...]

03
Sep
Mother’s Milk – Edward St Aubyn

Reading this book contributed to these challenges:2018 Reading Challenge [...]

03
Sep
Some Hope – Edward St Aubyn

Reading this book contributed to these challenges:2018 Reading Challenge [...]

03
Sep