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“ How To Be Both ” by Ali Smith: What is first? What you see or how you see? In this novel  two narratives are  set against each other – on...

“ Summer ” by Ali Smith: Summer is the last in Smith’s  Seasonal Quartet , all independent novels which nevertheless work together as a co...

 “ Spring ” by Ali Smith: After Autumn and Winter, Spring is the third installment of this Seasonal Quartet, all stand-alone, separate b...

  “The Great Passion” by James Runcie: This book proved to be the right choice to read during Easter. I have always been a great admirer a...

  “Portrait of an Unknown Lady” by María Gainza: Translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead, this is a novel about a high society con ...

  “The Family Chao” by Lan Samantha Chang: In this thoroughly entertaining book, an immigrant family’s dreams are paid for in blood. The n...

  “The Glass Hotel” by Emily St. John Mandel: “Sweep me up“! This words are scrawled with acid marker on a window pane by Vincent, one of ...

 “ Sea of Tranquility” by Emily St. John Mandel: I really liked this novel. I did like her first one,  Station Eleven , too. But with this...

  “The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger won the 2008 Man Booker Prize, and there must have been some reason for the judges’ ...

  “The Undertaking“ by Audrey Magee: Another novel by Audrey Magee, her first, after I’ve read her second, The Colony . I admit that I enj...

  “The Lie“ by Helen Dunmore: Two years after hostilities of First World War have ended Daniel, a young soldier, returns to his place of b...

  “The Colony” by Audrey Magee: This is a brilliant, beautifully touching novel, a thoughtful play on the private and the political, of th...