Oh wow, I loved this book. Both heartbreaking and heart warming in equal measure. Not a huge a...

Like most readers, I don't really know what this was about. I spent most of the book thinking ...

She was best known for playing Dr Beatrice Mason in the 1980s BBC wartime TV drama Tenko.

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An exploration of how exile from our home can affect our memories of it, while comparing it to...

As with her book, My Phantoms, this is more a collection of anecdotes. They're brilliantly wri...

I had to let this one sit with me before reviewing it. It's beautifully written and takes you ...

I have no idea what this was trying to tell me. Whiny man has a couple of very odd interaction...

I very much enjoyed Tom Lake so was looking forward to reading this, and I wasn't disappointed...

An extraordinary book which is not only unusual in its narrative style, but also in how it pla...

I haven't read the short story this graphic novel is based on so perhaps I'm being unfair, but...

I'd heard rave reviews of this book but wondered if it was for me. I was right to wonder. It j...

More of what we expect from David Sedaris. If you know his work this will satisfy your itch. I...

I enjoyed this new story of Gruoch, Macbeth's wife. While we know that Shakespeare's play is w...

Apparently many wrap items have drawn inspiration from this book. In part I can see why. The a...

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A fascinating and excellent little story written in an unnecessarily irritating way. The story...

Very short novella about a brutal Brazilian penal colony where the staff are as much prisoners...

The story of growing up with a bully for a father and a narcissist mother. A lot of this book ...

A sweet story with some lovely endearing characters, but overall there was real structure hold...

The writing style of this book is a bit simple giving it a bit of a pot-boiler feel, with some...

The star rating might be a bit mean because I think it just wasn't for me. I found large swath...

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The only reason I bought this was because the cover of my version showed a photograph of the f...

I enjoyed Wandering Souks by the same author so was looking forward to reading this and wasn't...

On the surface this is about housekeeping and meetings, but it's what said at those meetings t...

I've had to let this one sit with me because the reasons I found it unsatisfying at first are ...

Although this is very much more of Strout's kind of work telling of the joys and tragedies hid...