A new book by Louise Welsh is always a must read – she’s possibly my favourite living Scottish author. The Cut Up is her third crime novel to feature Rilke, valuer for Bowery Auctions in Glasgow. The first Rilke novel, Welsh’s debut, The Cutting Room from 2002 was superb, followed by The Second Cut some Read More
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Finally, a book for WIT month
Scraping in at the tail end of August, I finally managed to read a book for the month-long celebration of Women in Translation, hosted by Meytal at Biblibio. Meytal has also been compiling a top 100 WIT books – everyone was invited to send in their top tens (mine is here) – and the final, Read More
No frog in my throat, 'min P'tit'
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue I haven’t read Donoghue’s famous, or even infamous novel Room. I own a copy, but its dark subject matter requires a certain frame of mind to read and we haven’t coincided yet. I was very keen to read her latest novel Frog Music though, as it’s set in San Francisco Read More
