Olive is Emma Gannon’s fiction debut. I know of her through her fab podcast Ctrl,…
Tag: contemporary fiction
This is a sharp, funny story of a woman’s journey to discover more about her Irish roots and uncover a decades old mystery while she’s at it.
“I start wearing the family dog, a mini-sheltie, a little Lassie, in an unbleached cotton baby sling across the front of my body like a messenger bag, a few weeks shy of fall.”
A funny, witty, satirical-tinged commentary on navigating our digitally-soaked era.
A clever rom-com with a lead character who loves books as much as we do.
I christened my new Kindle with this book; my last read of 2019, my first…
Opening sentence: “Iris first heard about life on Nyx on a freezing winter’s night.” If…
Opening sentence: “Whenever I woke up, night or day, I’d shuffle through the bright marble…
Published in 2018 by Portobello Books / 163 pages / Translated from Japanese by Ginny…
