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The Book One afternoon, in a town in south-eastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colourful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family’s struggle to
The Book Dirty, funny, messy, wild, I tore through this bold and brutal debut in a delirious 24 hours, and it was brilliant. Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from
The Book A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom isn’t so much of a book as it is an experience, an experience that spans 2000 years, 47 countries, and legions of historical events. The story begins in Palestine in A.D.
What makes a home a home? The bones, the grass, the sky bleached white as its edges from heat – familiar and yet not, as if, flipping through an old book read once upon a time, they find the pages
With an endorsement from Bernardine Evaristo and a mention on The High Low podcast — the ultimate source of literary recommendations — it would have been wrong of me not to have read ‘The Vanishing Half.’ Stella and Desiree Vignes
On the simplest level, ‘The Dutch House‘ by Ann Patchett tells the story of a Gatsbyesque mansion and, across five decades, captures the indelible bond between brother and sister. In a rags-to-riches move into a glorious, neo-classical home, it should
With the upcoming release of Normal People on BBC Three, I finally caved and read the story everyone has fallen in love with. Now, I’m sitting here wondering why it took me so long to do so: it is just
“What are the odds?”“In a city of nine million? Less than zero.” I went into this book anticipating a sweet romance, but In Five Years is more than that: it’s a hard-hitting contemporary bustling with surprises and a beautiful depiction
‘A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom’ Book Review
The Book
A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom isn’t so much of a book as it is an experience...
The 10 Best New Book Releases of August 2020
While 2020 may not have turned out as anyone expected, it has been a great year for new book releas...
Little Things 25
Although the gloomy northern weather with its ominous grey skies is telling me otherwise, we're at...
The Books I Read in July 2020
July was an excellent reading month for me overall and warped into a period of tackling chunky book...
