It’s been a while (I’ve been in and out of the country a lot!) but here’s my latest post, namely a review of C. J. Sansom’s Dissoultion.… Read more “Dissolution – C. J. Sansom”
Category: Book Reviews
Do Not Say We Have Nothing – Madeleine Thien
“The only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that lives invisibly, that waits even after you close the book. Silence, too, is a kind of music. Silence will last.” – A review of Madeleine Thien’s Man Booker shortlisted novel, focusing on identity and memory within post-revolution China
The Kingmaker’s Daughter – Phillipa Gregory
“You can go very high and you can sink very low, but you can rarely turn the wheel at your own bidding” – a review of The Kingmaker’s Daughter by Phillipa Gregory set during the War of the Roses
All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?” – a review of Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel set in Nazi occupied France
The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Richard Flanagan
‘A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else’ – a review of Richard Flanagan’s novel set during the building of the Burma-Thailand Death Railway in World War 2
The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton
“There is nothing hidden that will not be not be revealed” – a review of Jessie Burton’s debut novel, set in the waning stages of 17th century Amsterdam.
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