“O tempora, o mores” as Cicero said. Can you believe the state that a certain orange person and his sidekicks have gotten us into? I’m not going to get into politics here though. My reading has also suffered. I twisted my knee in early Feb, it didn’t feel a bad one, but after a month Read More
Tag: Autofiction
Review catch-up – Sophie Hannah and Jonathan Coe
After my week and a bit immersed in Paul Auster, time to get back to normal, with a pair of reviews for you . The Killings at Kingfisher Hill by Sophie Hannah This was our book group choice for Jan into Feb which we discussed last week. We were up to ‘K’ in our ‘flora Read More
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge #ReadingBeryl23
Back when first published in 1989, this was my first exposure to Beryl Bainbridge, and it would be some years before I read another, which was when the paperback of Every Man For Himself (later re-read and reviewed here) was published in 1996/7. Then another big gap until I started reading her again in 2011 Read More
