Somebody’s Fool, the third book in the Sully series by Richard Russo, is published in paperback on 4 July and as you may be busy out voting that day, what you will need is a good book or three to get down to at while you wait for the results to come in. Nobody’s Fool… Continue reading Richard Russo and the Sully series
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May reading round up
It’s been an odd but varied reading month, but with three trips to London and a trip to Birmingham I have at least been able to read a lot on trains, which is better than spending the journey wondering why we can’t run the service anywhere near as well as practically any other country in… Continue reading May reading round up
April reading round up
April feels like it was a long month. Looking at what I read at the beginning of the month, these seem a good while ago. So here’s what I got through in April. Joe Country – Mick Herron I started this month as I finished the last, with Mick Herron’s dodgy spies at Slough House.… Continue reading April reading round up
March round up
This has felt like a long grey month. You’ll spot a theme in the reading – unintended to start with but which has been quietly absorbing. Lila – Marilynne Robinson Lila is the third book in Robinson’s Gilead series, which began with Gilead, the story an old man, John Ames, writes for his son about… Continue reading March round up
January reading round up
Ah 2024. War. Elections. Change or destruction? I’m not optimistic so this is why I thought I really should start to make a serious dent in the to be read pile before the apocalypse. I’ve created a spreadsheet and there are around 100 unread books in my house that I need to tackle. It’s a… Continue reading January reading round up
Susan E Barsby 