Happy 2025 Readheads. Good news is I’ve already read two books this month so am feeling chuffed with myself. Bad news (for me) is the hefty pile of books read last year which are not yet reviewed. They taunt me on the daily, but I am committed to sorting out this disaster lickety split, so […]
January
09
All Fours by Miranda July
posted by Ms A
Hold the HRT for this wild and wonderful window into the menopausal mind. In All Fours, a 45-year-old artist, wife and mother is planning a solo road trip from LA to NY for work. With a determination to prove to herself that she’s a steady and reliable person (and not the loose cannon she is […]
October
18
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
posted by Ms A
I think Sally Rooney must have good sex. What other explanation could there be for the way she weaves sex into so much of her writing? Normal People, Conversations with Friends, and Beautiful World, Where Are You all feature an above-average amount of top-shelf intimacy. Funnily enough, all bestsellers. Before you power up your gadget […]
September
25
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
posted by Ms A
Books about car dealers don’t often feature in the Booker Prize. In fact, I think this might be a first. Australian author, Peter Carey (himself the son of a car dealer) wrote two cracking books featuring car dealers but neither of them made it to the literary podium like The Bee Sting. In this case, […]
July
17
One Day We’re All Going to Die by Elise Esther Hearst
posted by Ms K
Cheery title I know but don’t let it dissuade you from reading this fresh pearl. I polished it off last night in a fevered frenzy and today am left with huge black bags under my eyes and an urgency to tell you to grab it – especially if you are a Lily Brett fan. This […]
July
06
James by Percival Everett
posted by Ms A
This is Huckleberry Finn, but not as you know it. James is a sensational re-imagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of runaway slave, Jim. Apart from being a work-stopping, page-turner, it welcomes a whole new generation of readers to one of the most revered American novels of all time. I don’t […]
June
10
The Wager by David Grann
posted by Ms A
Steady yourself for this true story of ships, storms, starvation and survival. Written by American journalist and author David Grann (who also wrote Killers of the Flower Moon), and with a biggest bibliography I ever did see, The Wager is a stunning re-telling of a doomed British naval voyage that took place in 1741. The […]
May
15
What Happened to Nina by Dervla McTiernan
posted by Ms K
Having read this, I know what happened to Nina. I won’t tell you of course, but good news for you is that you don’t have to wait till the end of the book to find out if you do read it (and I think you should….all the bookshops clearly agree as they’ve got this one […]
May
01
Prima Facie by Suzie Miller
posted by Ms K
I am a Suzie Miller tragic. I love her plays and have seen two fabulous ones of late. RBG (about Ruth Bader Ginsberg, US Supreme Court Justice and gender equality ‘shero’) and Jail Baby. Both brilliant! Prima Facie, the one woman play, was made famous when Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) headlined in it in London’s […]
April
25
Until August by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
posted by Ms A
Gabriel Garcia Márquez, the Colombian, Nobel Prize winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude, died in Mexico City in 2014. He had started work on Until August many years before but, with the onset of dementia, decided it wasn’t worthy of publishing and asked that it be […]
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