October 27, 2024 · 11:48 am 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…
November 15, 2023 · 11:57 pm 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…
December 21, 2024 · 4:42 pm 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….
September 25, 2024 · 6:30 pm My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss is a memoir about the author’s eating disorder which developed during her childhood with a serious relapse during the pandemic. I have enjoyed reading several novels by Moss over the years which often deal with food and illness, and her latest memoir…
March 19, 2024 · 6:29 pm A Life of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs is a blend of literary criticism and mini biographies of eight female authors and how they carved out creative freedoms for themselves, alongside Biggs’s personal reflections on her experience of going through a divorce in her 30s and losing her mother…
May 15, 2024 · 7:00 pm Pandora’s Box by Peter Biskind is about how the golden age of prestige television drama series in the early 2000s has evolved to an era of “peak TV” in which a saturated market produced 600 new scripted series in 2022 alone. It’s a three act story which begins with…
August 21, 2024 · 6:25 pm The Bee Sting by Paul Murray was shortlisted for the Booker Prize last year and is even more impressive than his second novel Skippy Dies which I read last year. It is a portrait of the Barnes family who live in a small Irish town and have fallen on…
February 21, 2025 · 7:04 pm The Watermark by Sam Mills is a truly wacky and audacious piece of metafiction which tells the story of celebrated reclusive author Augustus Fate who kidnaps Jaime and Rachel so he can trap them in his novel to give more depth to the characters. As they try to escape,…
Checking out positivity books can feel a bit strange. Being informed whatever’s all right when it isn’t, or you’ll be great when you’re not exactly sure you will, can really make things even worse. There is a remedy for contemporary hazardous positivity, and his name is Koupen-chan. Developed by artist Rurutea, this fluffy child emperor…
‘The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip’ by Stephen Witt The Thinking Machine is the bio of a tech titan, however it’s likewise “something more intriguing and revealing,” stated James Surowiecki in The Atlantic. Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang has actually been the clothing’s CEO from 1993 through its explosive increase…