Source: Review copy from Doubleday for the Random Things blog tour – thank you! Amongst themes and settings in a novel that I find impossible to resist are art and Italy, which High Tide has both of, so what’s not to like? Franchini is an Italian author and translator, who lives and works in London Read More
Tag: Tuscany
An excellent memoir and a DNF novel – Dyer & Fruttero/Lucentini
A review of my first non-fiction read of the year, an excellent memoir and my first DNF of a novel I so wanted to love…. Homework by Geoff Dyer Dyer is one of those eclectic authors who turns his hand to many forms – be it fiction or non-fiction. I remember enjoying his novelistic biographical Read More
20 Books of Summer 21 #3 – A Midsummer’s Novel
Love in Idleness by Amanda Craig This week has seen the summer solstice on the 21st, and Midsummer’s Day on the 24th, so what better time to read a modern take on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. ‘Love-in-idleness’ is the name of the flower that Oberon gets Puck to find to squeeze its love potion Read More