2020: the year of self-isolation. Luckily, there have been lots of brilliant books to help along the way. I have been mainly relying on my iBooks account and reading PDFs of books kindly sent by publishers, rather than ordering hardcopies / being sent hardcopies which has been (yet another!) different experience altogether. Alongside my rolling Book of the Month book reviews, here are some other truly fantastic books I have read this year:
When a book gets this much buzz, I want to know more about it!
I have written a feature for ARGO Magazine on Alexandros Papadiamandis – a forefather of modern Greek literature. Continue reading ARGO Article
Part one of the serialisation of Don Short’s book, ‘The Beatles and Beyond’ is up on the Daily Mirror website!
Marguerite arrives in Saint-Sulpice from Paris and meets Brigitte at the train station. Marguerite is twenty-four years old and she is about to start work as the live-in nurse for Jerome, an elderly and cantankerous man who lives alone and has been unwell for some time. Brigitte lives locally and is married to Henri, the village’s handsome hero, and the couple oversee the activity at Jerome’s large house and gardens, Rossignol (French for ‘Nightingale’).
I wrote a review of ‘Those Who Are Loved’ by Victoria Hislop for ARGO Magazine. Continue reading ARGO Article
Toby leads a normal, happy life. He’s in his late 20s, he has a good job working in a museum as their PR, and he has a lovely girlfriend, Melissa. Continue reading The Wych Elm by Tara French
I reviewed Sofka Zinovieff’s latest book ‘Putney’ for ARGO Magazine. Here it is! Continue reading ARGO Magazine Book Review
‘”The purpose of fiction is to illustrate and illuminate.”‘ Continue reading Days of Awe by A.M. Homes
Arnold has a happy life. He is a university lecturer and poet and is married to Polly who owns a shop where she makes paper and they run a small poetry press together. They have a lovely daughter Evelyn and everything seems to ring with domestic bliss. Continue reading The Paper Lovers by Gerard Woodward
