This is one of my favourite books. I bought a new edition recently, having got rid of my old edition…
This extremely successful adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s novel has a notorious reputation. I imagine it was very shocking when…
Do you like The Lord of the Rings but wish it was easier to read and had more humour? Then…
Maggie O’Farrell’s second novel is beautifully written and the style is my definition of accessible literary fiction. Although I really…
I thought I would like this book. A dystopian novel, it has some similarities to The Wall by John Lanchester…
This classic novel is a masterpiece. I first read it a few years ago and on re-reading recently I appreciated…
Our reading tastes tend to change over time. We return to some authors again and again, authors we never get…
Poor tragic sensitive Werther. He’s always at emotional extremes. When he’s happy, heavenly raptures fill his heart with delight and…
A frighteningly plausible dystopia, The Wall is set in the near future after an event called the Change. As a…
The debut novel of South African author, Olive Schreiner, was published in 1883 under the pseudonym Ralph Iron. I had…