I’m continuing my #20booksofsummer24 challenge hosted by Cathy @746books with a gem of golden-age detective fiction: Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie, published in 1936. Hercule Poirot, Superi…| Golden Age of Detective Fiction
It must have been late in the afternoon one day at the end of August when Moomintroll and his mother arrived at the deepest part of the great forest. It was completely quiet, and so dim between the…| This Reading Life
Harry Ellis is last to step onto the rough-hewn planks of Circular Quay. Some days, Dr Reynolds, I can picture him in excessive detail. At sixteen, rangy and delicate, he is yet to grow the beard t…| This Reading Life
Tall and sharp at fifty-two, Campbell Flynn was a tinderbox in a Savile Row suit, a man who believed his childhood was so far behind him that all its threats had vanished. He had secrets and troubl…| This Reading Life
I woke to the breaths of a whale as it made its way through the channel between islands. The huff difted through my tent; in seconds I shed my sleeping-bag cocoon and sloshed down through the salal…| This Reading Life
Australian cover UK cover Monday: late winter, bad weather. the River Alder, fattened by continuous rain, went in spate through Aldleigh and beyond it, taking carp and pike and pages torn from porn…| This Reading Life
Mister N is about a novelist who has lost his sanity. He has left his apartment, he says, because he could no longer live in the shadow of a high rise being built alongside it. He has checked into …| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
in ember and ash / the heart of the Noongar Nation beats buried… Refugia comes from the Latin word ‘refugium’, a noun that meant ‘the act of taking refuge’ or ‘a…| This Reading Life
Lena Derwent had worked at Mason’s for less than a week when they started making fun of her. Highway 13 is a collection of short stories by Australian writer, Fiona McFarlane. The stories are…| This Reading Life
I’m continuing my #20booksofsummer24 challenge, hosted by Cathy @746books, and posting the second title in #ReadingtheMeow2024 hosted by Literary Potpourri with the first book of the long-running R…| Golden Age of Detective Fiction
I’m continuing my #20booksofsummer24 challenge hosted by Cathy @746books with a forgotten gem of golden-age detective fiction: The Abbey Court Murder by Annie Haynes, published in 1923. This …| Golden Age of Detective Fiction
I’m kicking off my #20booksofsummer24 challenge hosted by Cathy @746books with a classic of golden age detective fiction: Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers. Whose Body? is the first title in h…| Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Leave the Capital is wonderful. Informative, chatty and funny, it traces a path from the 1960s to the 1990s and argues that a handful of Mancunian bands who were also-rans in the Beatles era paved …| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
In its flap copy and its cover blurbs, Feminist City is framed as a treatise on how urban spaces have ended up so gendered and how a different way of thinking about cities and the people who live a…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
From one forgotten author to another. I’m still reluctant to return to the second book I picked up for 10 Books of Summer and instead have chosen Traces of Enayat, Iman Mersal’s account…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Have you ever read a bo…| This Reading Life
Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone. Africa is the birthplace of humankind itself, yet little of its ancient and modern history is widely known. An African H…| This Reading Life
Yun Ko-eun is the pen name for South Korean writer Ko Eun-ju. Ever since the buzz surrounding The Disaster Tourist (2020), I have been curious about this author and her writing. When I spotted her …| This Reading Life
On the second of January, in the year 1880, three newly-orphaned sisters, finding themselves left to their own devices, with an income of exactly one hundred pounds a year a-piece, sat down to cons…| This Reading Life
and so it begins / a new beginning / not quite genesis She is the Earth is described on the title page as a verse novel but it reads more like a long poem, and like most poetry, it bears repeated r…| This Reading Life
‘The Great Australian Silence’ was how the anthropologist Bill Stanner characterised the history of colonisation and settlement. In a series of consequential lectures in 1968, Stanner m…| This Reading Life
I’m continuing my #20booksofsummer24 challenge hosted by Cathy @746books with The Problem of the Wire Cage, the eleventh Dr. Fell mystery by John Dickson Carr. The Problem of the Wire Cage has been…| Golden Age of Detective Fiction
