I waited a long while to read this. I was excited by the premise, and as much as it overwhelmed me to know I’d have to bear the weight of a book that covers 550 million years of Earth’s geological history in my hand as I laboured through it, I was consumed by a material…

This is probably one the best books I’ll read this year, and the year has barely started. It sweeps across decades with all the wistfulness of coming-of-age narratives, but surprises you with its grittiness and profundity as it progresses. ‘Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow’ is one of the most powerful lines spoken by Shakespeare’s Macbeth,…

There are some books that read like a fever dream. Wild, impossible, manic – but so very real all the same, you swear by it . Such is Folk, a meandering set of stories that slowly weave together an unforgettable tapestry of an island and its people. Characters we meet early on age fluidly across the…

Just when you think the dictionary is dying, in saunters Word by Word- at once a delightful romp through the vagaries of the English language, and an exclusive insider’s look into the workings of what is perhaps one of the world’s most taken-for-granted industries. Kory Stamper propels us through the many parts of a word…

Disclaimer: The next few reviews are old ones I’d put up on Goodreads which I feel deserve a wider audience. Some of these books were old paperbacks, some were ebooks now relegated to the back of my Kindle, and some are still wilting away on my bookshelf.   The Snow Child, in particular, was a lovely…