James by Percival Everett
A retelling of Huckleberry Finn with Jim, the enslaved ‘friend’ of Huck as the focus and told from his point … More James by Percival Everett
A retelling of Huckleberry Finn with Jim, the enslaved ‘friend’ of Huck as the focus and told from his point … More James by Percival Everett
It’s always interesting to see who reviews books online. The big newspapers, Kirkus, your favourite bloggers? Some books, however, seem … More This Family by Kate Sawyer
Imagine a world of privatised prisons, instruments of control that are torture and Black prisoners fighting each other to death … More Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Samson and his father were walking home when a sabre was swung by a cossack hacking Samson’s father’s head in … More The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov translated by Boris Dralyuk
This second reading of Birnam Wood was for the gardening book club – there is a link to growing vegetables … More Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton part 2
My guess is that it is time to retire Blomkvist and Lisbeth after this book as the quality was only … More The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons by Karin Smirnoff
I wonder if this is the last book in the Orphan X series. My money is on the last but … More The Last Orphan by Greg Hurwitz