It has taken me over thirty years to finally read this novel which was a bestseller in the 1980s. I must confess I was put-off…

I am always excited to find a new (to me) Australian author whose writing is stylish and clever. The Grapevine, new and Australian, is an…

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…

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 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…

The author has delivered another ripping action spymaster thriller in the Travis Devine, Department of Homeland Security, series.  This is book three of the series…

This book constitutes one of the finest readings I have had in the last months, and which I cannot but strongly recommend. Set in Penang,…

The 28th instalment of the very popular Jack Reacher thriller series returns to the time when Reacher is still with the US Military Police. Demoted…

Reading was the only true form of joy and solace, the only intellectual freedom they still possessed and they cherished it like life itself. Another…

This is Barbara Pym’s last novel, published only a few months before her death in 1980. I don’t think it’s her best novel, however it’s…

This first novel in the Jack Reacher thriller series was written in 1997. Decades later, the 28th novel has just been released (on average one…