On Java Road by Lawrence Osborne
Narrated by Adrian Gyle an expat living in Hong Kong for 20 years, this story revolves around a crime but … More On Java Road by Lawrence Osborne
Narrated by Adrian Gyle an expat living in Hong Kong for 20 years, this story revolves around a crime but … More On Java Road by Lawrence Osborne
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What I particularly love about this book is the ties that hold this group of public school boys from Preshute … More In Memoriam by Alice Winn
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Private Eye Umiko Wada, known as Wada, has her second outing in this book. Originally taken on as Kodaka’s secretary, … More The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction by Robert Goddard
This must be the most gentle pandemic novel I have read so far, even more gentle than Lucy by the … More Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
I didn’t manage to finish reading Catton’s last book The Luminaries but this book is sold as a thriller and … More Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
It is a long time since I cried at the end of a book but that is exactly what I … More Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano