October 11, 2023

Uncle Paul – Celia Fremlin (1959)

Meg has to go and help her sister Isabel who is on holiday in a seaside […]
September 24, 2023

The Inseparables – Simone de Beauvoir (2020)

Written as fiction in 1954 and never published whilst alive, Simone de Beauvoir tells the story […]
August 26, 2023

Arrangements in Blue – Amy Key (2023)

In this book, every chapter is built according to Joni Mitchell’s album Blue, with each song […]
August 18, 2023

Spring Cannot be Cancelled : David Hockney in Normandy – Martin Gayford & David Hockney (2021)

During the 2020 pandemic, David Hockney was in Normandy in the farmhouse he bought there. People […]
July 1, 2023

Esther’s Notebooks 1: Tales from my ten-year-old life – Riad Sattouf (2021)

Esther is ten years old. A little girl with her own issues, problems with her girlfriends, […]
June 12, 2023

Kick The Latch – Kathryn Scanlan (2022)

Based on interviews with Sonia, a racehorse trainer, Kathryn Scanlan plunges us into this closed universe […]
April 3, 2023

Tokyo express – Seicho Matsumoto (1958)

The bodies of Sayama and Toki are found dead on a beach in Kashii Bay, a […]
March 21, 2023

Once Upon A Time I lived on Mars – Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth – Kate Greene (2020)

HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation) is a scientific programme of missions where a team […]
February 17, 2023

The King Must Die – Mary Renault (1958)

The life of Theseus, from his childhood, to when he meets his father Aegeus and then […]
December 28, 2022

Metronome – Tom Watson (2022)

Aina and Whitney have been confined to an island for twelve years for a crime they […]
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