Oct 5, 2024 | What Am I Reading?
Kate Atkinson’s most recent collection of short stories, Normal Rules Don’t Apply (Penguin Random House 2023) is a book of signs and symbols, imagination and magic, fables and fairytales, portents and pretend, the impossible and the ridiculous, all written in her...
Oct 3, 2024 | What Am I Reading?
Tana French is an extraordinary crime writer who manages to combine literary prose with engaging characterisation and a page-turning plot. In her novel In The Woods (Hachette 2007), the fictional Dublin Murder Squad takes on the case of the murder of a child. Narrated...
Oct 1, 2024 | What Am I Reading?
One of the great things about books is that they don’t have a use-by date. The Wych Elm (Penguin Random House 2018) by Tana French is six years old now but packs the same punch as the day it was published. Thanks to Ashley Kalagian-Blunt for introducing me to this...
Sep 30, 2024 | What Am I Reading?
Amanda Lohrey’s The Conversion (Text Publishing 2023) is another of her trademark meditative, slow burn, contemplative stories that focus on a woman and her particular place in the world. As with The Labyrinth, The Conversion is a beautiful metaphor about love, loss,...
Sep 20, 2024 | What Am I Reading?
Queensland author Edwina Shaw has written a pragmatic non-fiction/part memoir book to accompany anyone experiencing loss, in A Guide Through Grief – First Aid for your Heart and Soul (Red Backed Wren Publishing 2020). In familiar and easy to read prose, with practical...
Sep 5, 2024 | What Am I Reading?
The blurb on the front of author and journalist Leigh Sales’ book is ‘Blindsides, resilience and what happens after the worst day of your life’. Despite being a Chatter (google Chat10Looks3; I’ve listened to every single episode since Day One), and despite admiring...
