Jeanette Winterson is roughly twelve years older than me. We both grew up in northern towns and, assuming the ‘Jeanette’ of the novel bears enough relation to the author (they are NOT the same person, as the author points out in her introduction), we both grew up in religious homes, in communities which were ‘zealously’… Read More Book Review: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
While my reading list is eclectic and deliberately as wide-ranging as possible, I do try to make room for ‘classic’ books – novels I should have read decades ago but somehow didn’t – to ‘catch up’ on all of those before it is too late. Regular readers of my reviews will probably note that I… Read More Book Review: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Yet another of those ‘classic books’ sat on my shelf for a long period of time (decades, in fact) with the utmost intention to ‘read one day’. Finally, last year, I got around to it. This was helped along by the fact that the famous scene – where Walter Hartright, the main protagonist, meets the… Read More Book Review: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
It is hard – very hard – to go wrong with Neil Gaiman. He’s an almost perfect storyteller and the worlds he conjures up are interesting, thoughtful and vibrant. Anansi Boys is up there with the best of his work. It is a delightful novel. Partly a form of sequel to American Gods – but… Read More Book Review: Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
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