Book review: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

I loved A Little Life so I was looking forward to getting to grips with another big book by Hanya … More

Book review: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

I’m reposting this review of A Little Life, written before I had a blog, ahead of publication of Hanya … More

What a joy it is to have a new Elizabeth Strout novel! This is the third featuring Lucy Barton. Lucy … More

Small Things Like These is just my kind of book, quietly powerful, beautifully told. Bill Furlong is a coal merchant … More

In The Dangerous Kingdom of Love, lawyer, politician and philosopher Francis Bacon struggles to advance his place at the court … More

The Echo Chamber features a deeply unappealing family whose life is upended by their addiction to celebrity culture and, in … More

I was interested in this novel because I recently read Conn Iggulden’s Conqueror series, which tells the story of Genghis … More

This is one of my occasional series where I share my thoughts on the whole of a book, so if … More

China Room begins in a Punjabi village in the 1920s. Mehar is one of three young women who have just … More

The Great Mistake is a novel based on the life and death of Andrew Haswell Green, the “Father of Greater … More