We had a great time discussing this on the podcast, and thanks to my lovely book club for agreeing...

Slightly awkward but very amusing discussion of Margaret Atwood's retelling of The Tempest, Hag-Seed, last night as my book...

Latest reviews and scores for Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich over on the main site. It's an extraordinary work,...

January book club was The Vegetarian by Han Kang, winner of the 2016 International Man Booker Prize. Reviews and...

Compelling film, nominated for best documentary feature Oscar, that made me view our last book club read, Paul Beatty's The...

Our Christmas read was this year's Booker winner The Sellout by Paul Beatty. I watched Beatty's acceptance speech when...

It was on my favourite reading guide, the FT books of the year list and it also won the...

Popping up on various summer-reading lists Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld is a contemporary retelling of Pride and Prejudice. Funnily enough one of...

Whether stimulated by the book or the apricot cocktails, we had a great time discussing Sarah Bakewell's book on...

A charming short film on 'which' and 'that'. I'm a little bit in love with Mary Norris. She seems to have an...

In the best books it's as if the writer knows us better than we know ourselves. They find the...

For our second reading retreat book we chose I Was Amelia Earhart. First published in 1997 this book made...

... I thought about how physical books are, how you can hold them in your hands. When you’re young,...

May saw us at Sally's parents' house in France for our 'reading retreat', the aim of which was to...

There's a useful Japanese word "tsundoku" for the accumulating of books yet failing to read...

You know when you go on holiday and you encounter things and you think 'this is so amazing, why...

Lovely short video in which Anthony Doerr talks about his Pulitzer-prize-winning novel. He's right, it's almost impossible to imagine...

Subtitled 'A Passion for Life', but unfortunately passion is the one thing this book didn't deliver, despite the fact...

Featured in Penguin's new Happy Reader, we thought this would make a good January read and so it proved....

Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature’s Most Memorable Meals is a book of fifty photographs of meals from celebrated...

George, George, how is it I hadn't heard about you till now? (My fault, not yours. Note to self:...