I’ve had my eye on The Lake by Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto for a while and it didn’t disappoint. An immersive, powerful story.
Category: Fiction
Opening sentence: “My sister is a black hole.” Sisters is the first book I’ve read…
Grown Ups has the strange honour of being the book that straddled / took me…
Sometimes it seems fortuitous that you pick up a book (The Midnight Library in this…
I ‘m so pleased I’ve finally gotten around to reading Shirley Jackson. I knew We…
Olive is Emma Gannon’s fiction debut. I know of her through her podcast Ctrl, Alt…
I was thoroughly charmed by The Mystery of Henri Pick. Originally written in French, this…
As I was reading Queenie, it was awarded Book of the Year and Debut Book…
You know when some books just punch you so hard, emotionally? That’s what Small Pleasures did to me.