I realised a while back that I had never read any Ernest Hemingway, along with a raft of other classics and felt it was time to start filling that gap in my reading. The Old Man and the Sea always fascinated me as I had a vague recollection of watching the film with Spencer Tracey …
Book Review
Panenka
After such a great debut I was really looking forward to reading Rónán’s follow up and was lucky enough to get sent a copy from Bluemoose Books to read and review. During a year where we are all just feeling raw, as though our nerve endings feel exposed to the world there is a great …
A Winter’s Promise
Christelle Dabos. Europa Editions (UK) Ltd. (492p) ISBN 9781787701809 The cover image along with the brief blurb in the Bookseller already had me intrigued about A Winter’s Promise and when it came available to read I jumped at the chance. Set in a distant past the world has been shattered in a cataclysm called the …
Redhead by the Side of the Road
I’ve always meant to read Anne Tyler, got several in the #TBR room waiting for me, but I got sent this as a gift and thought it was a nice thin volume to start with. From the start I was drawn into Micah’s life and his desire for simplicity in it. To this end he …
An Open Book and Empty Cup
It was a delight to receive this gorgeous book and before I even started reading I was delighted in the binding as it is so luxurious, the black with gold really catches the eye and the cloth binding makes it a pleasure to hold. Once I started reading it though I could feel the passion …
The Year of the Hare
This has been languishing on my shelves ever since I started working in the bookshop. I bought it as it was one of the recommended books in part of the initial training, an exemplar, but at the time I was still reading a relatively narrow range of genres. I got the opportunity to throw it …