My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss is a memoir about the author’s eating disorder which developed during her childhood with a serious relapse during the pandemic. I have enjoyed reading several ...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2024/09/25/books-i-read-in-august-2024/
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray was shortlisted for the Booker Prize last year and is even more impressive than his second novel Skippy Dies which I read last year. It is a portrait of the Barnes fa...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2024/08/21/books-i-read-in-july-2024/
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein won the first Women’s Prize for Non Fiction last month. I read Klein’s first book No Logo several years ago, which I felt had already...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2024/07/27/books-i-read-in-june-2024/
Knife by Salman Rushdie recounts how the world-famous author survived an attempted murder at a literary event in New York in August 2022, over three decades after a fatwa was issued which forced ...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2024/06/15/books-i-read-in-may-2024/
Pandora’s Box by Peter Biskind is about how the golden age of prestige television drama series in the early 2000s has evolved to an era of “peak TV” in which a saturated market produced 600...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2024/05/15/books-i-read-in-april-2024/
A Tomb With a View by Peter Ross is a fascinating book about graveyards in Britain and Ireland and the stories of some well-known and forgotten residents as well as the work of those who care for...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2024/04/20/books-i-read-in-march-2024/
A Life of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs is a blend of literary criticism and mini biographies of eight female authors and how they carved out creative freedoms for themselves, alongside Biggs’s p...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2024/03/19/books-i-read-in-february-2024/
Wellness by Nathan Hill is set in the 1990s when Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students amid a vibrant art scene in Chicago. The novel follows the ups and downs of their relationship over th...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2024/02/16/books-i-read-in-january-2024/
One of the stand-out novels I read in 2023 was Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld which is a fun and refreshingly original take on the genre. I also really enjoyed The Running Grave...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2024/01/12/my-books-of-the-year-2023/
I often seek out the books which receive rare positive reviews in Private Eye magazine and Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis is a truly eye-opening look at where our waste actually ends up. Fra...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2024/01/11/books-i-read-in-december-2023/
The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith is the seventh outing for Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott’s private detective agency. When they are approached by the family of a young man feared to ha...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/11/17/books-i-read-in-october-2023/
Nine Pints by Rose George is a non-fiction about “the mysterious, miraculous world of blood”. The title refers to the approximate amount of blood we have in our bodies, and George explores va...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/11/15/books-i-read-in-november-2023/
The Fraud by Zadie Smith weaves together three storylines based on true events in the 19th century. A Cockney butcher arrives in London from Australia claiming to be Sir Roger Tichborne, the heir...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/10/13/books-i-read-in-september-2023/
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell is a fictionalised account of the marriage of 15-year-old Lucrezia di Cosima de’Medici to Alfonso, Duke of Ferrera in sixteenth century Florence, mer...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/09/09/books-i-read-in-august-2023/
Stasiland by Anna Funder won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2004 (now known as the Baillie Gifford Prize) and chronicles the lives of several people who lived in the German Democrati...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/08/19/books-i-read-in-july-2023/
I went to the Hay Festival for a couple of days at the end of May and picked up Regenesis by George Monbiot from the signed copies table in the Festival Bookshop (climate and food seemed to be bi...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/07/15/books-i-read-in-june-2023/
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld is one of my most anticipated books of 2023. Sally is a comedy writer for the late-night sketch show The Night Owls – a fictionalised version of Saturday Ni...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/06/17/books-i-read-in-may-2023/
Red Sauce Brown Sauce by Felicity Cloake is a travel memoir which documents the Guardian food writer’s “British breakfast odyssey” cycling around the UK in search of all the components of b...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/05/18/books-i-read-in-april-2023/
Lessons by Ian McEwan spans the life of Roland Baines, born shortly after the Second World War. Taking in several major world crises from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Chernobyl disaster to th...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/04/08/books-i-read-in-march-2023-2/
Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in 2021 – two of my favourite literary p...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/03/18/books-i-read-in-february-2023/
Love Marriage by Monica Ali tells the story of 26-year-old junior doctor Yasmin Ghorani who is engaged to fellow medic Joe Sangster. The novel opens with Yasmin’s Bengali immigrant parents mee...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/02/11/books-i-read-in-january-2023/
There were three novels which really stood out for me in 2022. Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet was longlisted for the Booker Prize last year and skilfully presents the fictional biography of p...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/01/07/my-books-of-the-year-2022/
For Richer For Poorer by Victoria Coren is the Only Connect presenter’s 2009 memoir about how she became a professional poker player and the first female winner of the European Poker Tour in 20...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/01/05/books-i-read-in-december/
Traitor King by Andrew Lownie is an account of the events which followed Edward VIII’s abdication of the throne in 1936 to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Lownie puts forward a convinci...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2022/12/17/books-i-read-in-november/
Longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, Trust by Hernan Diaz was was one of the nominated titles which intrigued me the most. It consists of four manuscripts related to New York financier Andr...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2022/11/12/books-i-read-in-october-2/