This autobiographical novel, the author’s last, published in 1980 when he was seventy-two, revisits the subject of his first, that of the de...

This book (Doug’s suggestion), an interior address by a young mother (the Soldier of the title) to her first baby (Sailor), portrays the phy...

Manchester-based indie publisher Confingo publishes beautiful books, and this volume is the latest in their series of collaborations between authors and artists. It’s a slim little flapped pa…

It's a long time since I've posted on here anything but the reports of our reading group discussions, but the publication today of my new mi...

Like my previously reviewed The Book of Joys, Five Different Stories About One Thing is part of a series of collaborations between writers and artists published by the Manchester based small press,…

Five Different Stories About One Thing is a collection of five brand new stories by Elizabeth Baines, with accompanying images specially created by Laura Scott. It is the seventh book in our series of...

Warning: Plot spoil Margeret's latest suggestion was this widely acclaimed and International Booker long-listed book set in the People's Rep...

Five Different Stories About One Thing is a collection of five brand new stories by Elizabeth Baines, with accompanying images specially created by Laura Scott. It is the seventh book in our series of...

This book which has sold millions of copies worldwide was suggested by John as, I think, something of a provocation, since our group is deep...

I suggested this novel which takes the form of the confession of Howard W Campbell Jr, who is awaiting trial in an Israeli prison after the ...

Doug suggested this lively and linguistically inventive novel set in late nineteenth-century Montana and featuring two reprobate but disarmi...

To avoid preventable deaths, we must dismantle a culture that allows the dismissal of human experience

Clare suggested this novella narrated by Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest who has also been a literary critic and poet. It is a d...

This is going to be a short post, as I don't want to plot spoil.  Ann had recently read this genre-defying book and had been unable to put i...

When Geoff joins a babysitting circle, his wife Jenny knows he’s up to something.

Some time ago we read Richard Ford's The Sportswriter and I was surprised to find it, along with most of our group, fairly tedious and even...

This was the one book by Virginia Woolf that Margeret, who loved her work, had not read. Introducing it to the group, she joked that having ...

We hope you'll join us at the wonderful Saul Hay Gallery to celebrate the launch of Precipitation, a collection of stories by Ailsa Cox with images by Patricia Farrell

We hope you'll join us at the wonderful Saul Hay Gallery to celebrate the launch of Precipitation, a collection of stories by Ailsa Cox with images by Patricia Farrell

This very short Argentinian novel, suggested by Doug, was a shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. We were all immediately attr...

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