May 18, 2024 Autumn – Ali Smith Autumn is Ali Smith’s response to Brexit. Clearly, she disagrees with the majority of the British’s decision to leave the European Union as demonstrated…
July 3, 2023 My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell I never thought that I would experience yet another Lolita in my life. But My Dark Vanessa is a similar kind, because I found…
July 1, 2023 Time Shelter – Georgi Gospodinov The 2023 Booker Prize winner, Time Shelter, is an extraordinary book that touches mainly on our relations with history and our own past. Combining…
September 20, 2022 The Door – Magda Szabo The Door is a singular story of an unusual relationship between a female author and her housekeeper. Emerence, the housekeeper, is quite a character,…
September 3, 2022 Bloomsbury Girls – Natalie Jenner Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner is a sequel to her debut The Jane Austen Society. Like in her debut novel, Jenner has chosen a…
November 26, 2021 Jane Austen Society – Natalie Jenner For a die-hard Jane Austen fan like me, a book of anything about her is too tempting to resist. So when I came across…
November 25, 2021 Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh #8) – P.D. James This eighth book of the Dalgliesh series takes us to a village in the headland of Norfolk where a nuclear power station is shadowing…
November 25, 2021 The Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh #12) – P.D. James The Murder Room is all that a murder-mystery should be. Intriguing and clever mystery plot, an exciting story, an interesting set of characters, including…
November 25, 2021 Sycamore Row (Jake Brigance #2) – John Grisham In Sycamore Row, I meet Jake Brigance, my favourite Gisham character, again. I find him three years later from his famous Hailey trial, still…
November 25, 2021 A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance #1) – John Grisham Reading Sycamore Row took me down the memory lane to its prequel, A Time to Kill. And I realized that I haven’t written a…