Ruskin Park by Rory Cellan-Jones is the former BBC journalist’s memoir about how his parents met in the 1950s. His mother, Sylvia, was separated from her first husband and worked at the BBC as a secretary. She had a brief affair with James Cellan Jones, a producer who was 15 years her junior. When Sylvia…
Impossible City by Simon Kuper is an expat’s view of Parisian society in the 21st century and how it has changed over the last two decades. Kuper bought an apartment in Paris in 2000 and still lives in the French capital with his American wife and their three children. From the point of view of…
My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss is actually a narrative concerning the writer’s eating ailment which established throughout her youth along with a significant regression throughout the pandemic. I have actually appreciated going through a number of books through Marsh throughout the years which usually handle food items as well as disease, as well as…
A Lifestyle of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs is a combination of fictional critical remarks as well as mini bios of 8 women writers as well as exactly how they took innovative liberties on their own, together with Biggs’s individual reflections on her adventure of undergoing a separation in her 30s as well as shedding…
Pandora’s Box by Peter Biskind concerns how the golden era of tv drama in the very early 2000s has actually advanced to a time of “peak television” through which a saturated market made 600 brand-new scripted set in 2022 alone. It is actually a 3 show account which starts along with exactly how the wire…
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray was nominated for the Booker Reward in 2014 as well as is actually much more exceptional than his 2nd story Skippy Dies which I go through in 2014. It is a picture of the Barnes loved ones that stay in a little Irish city as well as have…
The Watermark by Sam Mills is actually a really screwy as well as adventurous item of metafiction which informs the tale of popular secluded writer Augustus Destiny that abducts Jaime as well as Rachel so he can easily snare all of them in his unfamiliar to provide additional intensity to the personalities. As they make…
Bookish by Lucy Mangan does what every great bibliomemoir should do: it reminded me of lots of books I would like to reread, helped me discover lots of books I now want to read and gave me a new appreciation of books I will probably never read. While Mangan’s previous bibliomemoir Bookworm covered the nostalgia…
My list of books to read continues to expand and there are lots to look forward to in 2024. All publication dates where known apply to the United Kingdom only. Wellness by Nathan Hill is published in January. I really enjoyed Hill’s debut novel The Nix and his second book is another 600+page…
Nine Pints by Rose George is a non-fiction about “the mysterious, miraculous world of blood”. The title refers to the approximate amount of blood we have in our bodies, and George explores various blood-related topics across nine chapters covering disease, cultural attitudes and medical breakthroughs. George‘s global tour includes HIV education in South Africa, the…