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Martyr!  is the debut novel by Iranian-American poet Kaveh Akbar and was one of last year’s buzzier books. I’m always curious about...

It has been a good while since I have found the time to sit down and write up my thoughts on a book. So the books I want to review keep...

For nine months now, Tom Kettle has got to enjoy the quiet solitude of retirement after ending his career with the garda. From his rented...

Sunday has quiet day and currently eats only white foods. She cannot drink anything that is not fizzy and feels best burying her hands in...

Penang, 1921. Lesley and Robert Hamlyn are expecting an important visitor. “Willie” Somerset Maugham, who has been travelling through...

Now that Gopi’s mother has died, it is up to her and her sisters to try and keep their father from falling apart. The only thing he still...

For some reason I expected not to enjoy this novel. Based on some blurb or review, I’d saved it in a similar category to Study for...

In the fictional town of Emory, Eoin takes a walk with his 13 year old son Jamie who can’t stop talking for a second, filled with...

A young woman moves to an unnamed Northern country to stay with her older brother as a housekeeper. Here she faces not only the strange...

I finished Prophet Song by Paul Lynch a few weeks ago, but I could not sit down and write up my thoughts about this novel right away,...

“Elegance is saying just enough. And I do believe that the reader completes the story.” If that is true, Claire Keegan has to be the most...

Rarely do I sit down to type up my review with no idea how to begin. But first things first: I loved The Bee Sting. There is so much...

I am sad to report that this was quite a disappointing read for me. Not because it was bad but I had such high expectations and it just...

What are you? That’s the question you are asked by everyone from a young age. Because to a society that is built on a clear hierarchy of...

I didn’t get around to starting the final book in Ali Smith’s quartet, Summer, until that season had almost come to an end. During these...

Leigh grows up in Rotterdam, at 22 feet below sea level, and develops a fascination with the ocean from an early age. When she swims, she...

English version below 1945. Der zehnjährige Josef Ambacher und seine Familie steigen in einen Zug und treten die Reise in eine ungewisse...

We are in the near future. The euro has, for reasons of simplicity, the same value it had in 2022, but everything else is exactly as it...

James Cahill’s debut novel Tiepolo Blue enjoyed quite a bit of excitement before its release. I picked it up after listening to a podcast...

“She thought of Antarctica, the snow and ice and the bodies of dead explorers. Then she thought of hell, and then eternity.” Just before...