"How could a weak, perverse woman like me, someone who dreams of a knife in her hand, be the mother and wife of those two individuals? What was I going to do? I burrowed deeper into the ground, hiding my body." #BookSky 💙📚 #DieMyLove#TranslationThurs
An intriguing journey in search of information about a very special man, in Trieste and... Wimbledon? My look at Daniele Del Giuidice's 'A Fictional Enquiry' (translated by Anne Milano Appel, courtesy of New Vessel Press): tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/a...
Currently reading Comic Book Punks by Karl Stock about British writers and artists transforming US comics in the 1980s and coincidentally picked up 2 issues of A1 from that time featuring many of the same individuals in Oxfam yesterday.
New on the blog today, I've written about THE LAND IN WINTER by Andrew Miller.
I adored this moving, elegantly crated novel that goes deep into character, highlighting the fault lines in two beautifully observed marriages during winter 1962. #BookSky 💙📚
New on the blog today, I've written about A PRIVATE VIEW by Anita Brookner.
A superb novel in which a dull, respectable middle-aged man is tempted to jettison his highly ordered life for a volatile, vampish young woman. I loved it! #BookSky 💙📚
My new blog post on Russell Hoban’s wonderfully unusual novel, TURTLE DIARY, about two lonely protagonists who partner up to rescue a trio of sea turtles from the zoo. Loved it and it's sure to feature in my year-end highlights. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/t...
UK publishers! Anyone interested in Hervé le Tellier's new novel given the success of The Anomaly? Or what about Lydie Salvayre's latest which only seems to have an Australian publisher?
Rose is (at least partly) on your recommendation (it may also be on a prize list...). The Burnet is part of the wonderful Darkland Tales series which has yet to let me down.
A welcome reissue of Gordon William's From Scenes Like These, shortlisted for the first Booker Prize, and still shocking in its bleak, unflinching portrait of life in 1950s Scotland. 1streading.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/f...
A welcome reissue of Gordon William's From Scenes Like These, shortlisted for the first Booker Prize, and still shocking in its bleak, unflinching portrait of life in 1950s Scotland. 1streading.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/f...
I found Hot Milk a little disappointing (but then I love the novel) but enjoyed almost every minute of One Battle After Another - though I'm not sure I see the point of having a character improbably survive just to kill them in a different way!
