BOOKPHACE

   I always feel there’s something slightly underhand, immoral even, about reading someone else’s diaries. As a journal/diarist myself I wou...

   In spite of the fact that this turned out to be an e-read rather than a physical book with its annoying split lines and non-uniform font ...

  This is my second Ruth Ozeki book this year and both of them have been Canongate Books readalongs . And I am much the richer for the exper...

  Part of me dreaded a spate of covid-19/lockdown novels although I understand the need to express the tangle of emotion that the situation ...

  Oh this is delicious, darkly humorous, violent and irreverent but oh my goodness what an entertaining and immersive read it is. Wonderfull...

This book seemed to be all over social media for a while. This can do one of two things to me. It can send me scuttling off in the opposite ...

Argentinian crime noir? Not a term you’re familiar with I’ll be bound. But I bet you said the same at the advent of the Scandi noir phenomen...