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…

This is a fascinating non-fiction story excellently written and explained. The book details the life of Marguerite Alibert, a high class Parisian courtesan who famously…

Holly Ringland is the author of two of my favourite books: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding. It…

This is a series of essays, many previously published in magazines and newspapers, but brought together in this one volume. As each essay is complete…

When Chloe Hooper’s partner, Don Watson, is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, she turns to children’s literature to find a way to communicate…

If I had to choose a favourite book among all those read in 2022 (the list is long, believe me), I would not hesitate to…

In Entangled life Sheldrake explores the unsung role fungi has and always will play in our lives. This book may seem quite esoteric at first…

In this gem of a book, Kapuscinski, as a matter of introduction, starts telling us how, at the University of Warsaw, he first ever heard…

Libraries are purposed to house books. Some books are, in reverse, written about libraries. Improbable Libraries by Alex Johnson is one such book.

The Final Days of EMI: Selling the Pig by Eamonn Forde, is not a yarn about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Instead, it is…