Reading Wales Month will be back for its ninth year in March, giving readers around the world a chance to celebrate literature from this Celtic nation. If you’ve ever wondered if there is more to Welsh writing than Dylan Thomas and Roald Dahl, then now is your chance to find out. The answer, of course, […]
The Silence in Between was inspired by a true story of a mother separated from her baby when the border between West and East Berlin was closed in 1961. In Josie Ferguson’s version, the separation of mother and child is used as a jumping off point for a novel about the legacy of war and […]
“What I’m Reading” is my contribution to the WWW Wednesday meme run by Sam from Taking On a World of Words. The Ws represent three questions: What I’m reading now I’m two thirds of the way through Human Acts by Han Kang, the book I selected as a result of my TBR Book Jar lucky […]
For Top Ten Tuesday this week I’ve been refreshing my memory about the authors I read last year for the first time. There were 19 of them, but only some of them interested me enough to want to read more of their work. Here are my 10 most interesting discoveries. I’ve included links to the […]
It took me a while to warm to Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout. It’s the most recent instalment of her ‘Lucy Barton’ series set in Maine. As that’s what I thought it was going to be, so I was thrown by a statement right at the beginning of this novel that this was to […]