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Build a world that fits all the people in it. That was Robin Ince’s rallying cry when I went to see him …
Booka in Oswestry has to be up there as one of my top five bookshops. Everything it does it has done well, …
The Abundance by Amit Majmudar, first published in 2013, is a lovingly bittersweet story of first generation immigrant parents living in the …
Twenty years in preparation Hall brings us a story of Helm, the only named wind in the UK. Naturally, this prompts the …
In publishing it has been a year for highlighting the importance of rivers and water, from Robert Macfarlane’s Is a River Alive? …
It’s great to find this aperitif sized delicacy in the library. A short story of approximately 50 pages So Late in the …
‘The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite’ Piranesi is the second novel from Susanna Clarke following Jonathan Strange & …
We are well and truly into the 2025 Booker Prize season. What better way to recognise the literary quality that this prize …
Walking up the hill through Ambleside, you’ll see the sign you’ve been looking for, Fred’s Bookshop, at the top of the high …
It is perhaps worth mentioning that I started writing this review on the 4th of July, American Independence Day; a day when …
My Name Is Lucy Barton is Elizabeth Strout’s fifth novel, and the first of the Lucy Barton collection. Published in 2016, it …
You can tell from the moment you see Commonwealth Books that it has character: situated next to Boston’s oldest street and opening …
She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan is an epic tale of turning tragedy into power, how the pain of the …
The Trees was first published in 2021 and subsequently shortlisted for 2022’s Booker Prize as well as winning the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse …
Published in 2024, The List of Suspicious Things is the wonderful debut novel from Jennie Godfrey. It’s a story uncovering a mystery, …
Fundamentally is Younis’ debut, published in February this year. The work is already attracting a heap of positive attention: Younis has been …
The Color Purple was first published in 1982 and won critical acclaim with the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book …
The 50th anniversary edition of The Peregrine (first published in 1967) is a truly magnificent piece of nature writing. Written in diary …
High Peak Bookstore & Cafe has a good feeling as soon as you arrive; the sound of birds flitting in and out …