
Category: Book Reviews


The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey: Summary, Review and Analysis

Reading from the Women’s Prize 2024 longlist

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Sunday Musings: Five Star Expectations – Blessing or Curse?

What I learned from Lord of the Flies

Reading Ireland: Old God’s Time & Kala

Reading Around the World: Take-off (South Korea and North Korea)

Why The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is worth reading

New York Novellas: Passing & Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Novellas in November: My Year in Novellas

Halloween Reading: The Woman in Black, Coraline, Carmilla

Book Review: Summer by Ali Smith

Howards End by E. M. Forster

Reading from the Women’s Prize 2023 longlist

What I learned from Great Expectations

Book Review: Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

Book Review: Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Character-driven Crime Fiction – did I find any new favourites?

Atonement by Ian McEwan – Review, Analysis and The Sense of an Ending

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath – Themes and Motifs

Book Review: The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka

The Literary Duel, Christmas Special: Scrooge vs. Christmas

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy – when life knocks you down

Slaughterhouse-Five: The Meaninglessness of War and the Block Universe

Rereading the Classics: Gatsby, Heidi, Triffids

Spring Reading – April is the Cruelest Month?

Crying in H Mart & Ghost Forest – grief, family, identity

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf – sometimes you have to work for it

Kindred by Octavia Butler: Unique, Unputdownable, Uneven

Book Review: Winter by Ali Smith

Literary Locations: Kyrgyzstan

In Search of Character-driven Crime Fiction

What I learned from Frankenstein

Book Review: Autumn by Ali Smith

A Room With a View by E. M. Forster

Book Review: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Book Review: The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne

Book Review: The Lost Man by Jane Harper

Book Review: Assembly by Natasha Brown

Book Review: Summerwater by Sarah Moss

Book Review: Crime and Punishment

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut – Rant Review Alert!

The Employees by Olga Ravn – Rave Review Alert!

Book Review: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

Book Review: I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O’Farrell

Book Review: Unsettled Ground

Book Review: Piranesi

Book Review: The Doll Factory

Book Review: Klara and the Sun

Book Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Such a Fun Age – Not Much Fun

Book Review: Love and Other Thought Experiments

Why The Birds by Daphne du Maurier is still relevant today

Literary Locations: Bear Edition

Book Review: Transcendent Kingdom

Winter Reviews: The Darkest Evening and The Ice Palace

Book Review: The Housekeeper and the Professor

Nonfiction November: Pushing the Limits
