
Baumgartner by Paul Auster
Paul Auster, the highly acclaimed laureate of hip New York, author of The New York Trilogy and a lauded list of novels and memoirs (with…
Paul Auster, the highly acclaimed laureate of hip New York, author of The New York Trilogy and a lauded list of novels and memoirs (with…
Alberto Manguel’s The Library at Night, first published in 2006, is a collection of fifteen essay-like chapters, each celebrating a particular library-related theme and, in…
Armand Gamache, the former head of homicide for the Surete du Quebec and his wife Reine-Marie are revelling in their retirement, living in their beloved…
Anne Tyler has done it again. Her books can appear to be simple tellings of domestic lives. But don’t you be fooled, Tyler’s characters, particularly…
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater…
This is the latest historical novel by Robert Harris. The principal characters and plot, is the love affair carried out through their correspondence, between the…
This year’s Booker Prize winner (2024). It’s slim volume, with no plot in sight. Over 24 hours we travel with six astronauts as their spacecraft…
Another stunning historic romance from the talented pen of Kate Forsyth. We follow three women as they struggle to find love and security in times…
Reading this book brought to mind The Little Prince. A seemingly simple story, that addresses existential questions such as: ‘what gives a life purpose’; ‘do…
This book is set in Oxford (tick); the characters work for the Clarendon English Dictionary which is a thinly disguised Oxford English Dictionary (tick) and…
King Richard the Third is dead – the last English king to be slain in battle. And yet, he finds himself in conversation with a…
This is the fifth instalment in the All Souls Trilogy (A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life, followed by Time’s…