The place to find past issues of the Your Next Book newsletter
– my take on some of the outstanding writing on my bookshelf

Pied Piper was published in 1942. The story is purely imaginary and something of a fairy tale (a nice one, not a Brothers Grimm horror story) but the setting is as realistic as imagination applied to the news of the day could possibly make a setting.

Old Baggage tells you what happened to suffragettes once it was all over. Those of you versed in suffragette lore will relish the...

Ernesto is somewhat inept, naïve and slow on the uptake, and you are going to love him. A musician in a Cuban nightclub, he flees his...