The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows (Review)
I decided to read this book because I loved The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society co-written by Annie Barrows, and I hoped that The Truth According to Us would give me at least half of ...
5 Years Ago
The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden (Review)
“I have plucked snowdrops at Midwinter, died at my own choosing, and wept for a nightingale. Now I am beyond prophecy.” The last in a series are hard books to get right. More fail than not. So, I ...
5 Years Ago
Looking back: the Arsenal fan edition
Football is nothing without the raw passion and emotion, the personal connections and collective stories of fans around the world. And just as any other sport, it is nothing without the pure, redem…...
5 Years Ago
In pursuit of the shadow of the wind
Originally published on Litro Online “It was the early summer of 1945, and we walked through the streets of a Barcelona trapped beneath ashen skies as dawn poured over Rambla de Santa Monica in a w...
5 Years Ago
Reading year 2018
Overall, I’ve had a very good reading year again. My Bookstagram has a list of my favourites from 2018, some of my plans for 2019, as well as musings on the year gone by. Check it out at @boo…...
5 Years Ago
Books, Dad, and Jack Reacher
One late afternoon I was at a bookstore in Birmingham, England, clutching Lee Child’s thriller Night School, featuring long-running character Jack Reacher. I was there just for the signing, with an...
5 Years Ago
