4 minMoon Tiger by Penelope Lively After a long break from reading prize-winning novels I’ve been enticed back into the Booker fold as the result of a three-pronged...
4 minInheriting Our Names An Imagined True Memoir of Spain’s Pact of Forgetting By C. Vargas McPherson C. Vargas McPherson, whose given name is Cristina, describes herself as being ‘interested in the intersection between truth and...
3 minThe Uncommon Reader by Alan BennettA novella, hardly more than a short story, this little book is pure, condensed Alan Bennett from the title onwards. Bennett is best known...