Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
I do love a graphic novel and so looked at all the best of 2022 lists for these books and … More Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
I do love a graphic novel and so looked at all the best of 2022 lists for these books and … More Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
He shook his head and laughed, as if reading fiction were a frivolous pursuit, maybe even crazy. p257 I have … More Fairy Tale by Stephen King
And so am I. I really have had enough of these trauma memoirs although this one is very well written … More I’m Glad My Mother Died by Jenette McCurdy
This book has appeared on many ‘best of 2022’ lists, 8 out of the 16 I collected in this post, … More Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Purchased for book club. This is one of those books that I always think of as a swan: serene on … More The Past by Tessa Hadley
This is a story of the ways in which what happens online can affect real life, and of course JK … More The Ink Black Heart by R. Galbraith
I have no idea what I was expecting when I picked this book up in the library but it wasn’t … More Haven by Emma Donoghue
The special thing about this book is that it is set in both London and Kolkata with both places being … More The Waiter by Ajay Chowdhury
One of the ways we used to help children to write was to show them how to boil stories down … More Moon Lake by Joe R. Lansdale
Wolf Den is the first in a trilogy of books that reimagines the stories of women that time has overlooked. … More The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper