Booker International Longlist 2020

Welcome to the craziness that is Booker International Prize time.
Feb 27

Welcome to the craziness that is Booker International Prize time.
Feb 25

February 2020 took us to the USA a country for which I had no trouble finding a book or several…
Feb 23

The rise and fall? of an Aristocratic family in Cornwall.
How did we get to the end of January already? Anyone else feel that 2020 is just flying by?
On to this months winners and losers from the 1001 list.
Jan 25

New for 2020 I will be sharing with you all those incredibly rare books that get a 5 star rating from me and trust me they are few and far between. These are the books that have that little something extra that lifts them beyond my usual 3 & 4 stars don’t ask me what that something is as I will never be able to explain it even to myself.
Jan 16

Map from this website
Welcome to January and our first round the world trip of 2020. This month we visited Taiwan so what have we learnt and what did we read?

My New Year’s Resolution is to catch up with all the ARCs I need to read and review so how was my first ARC of the year?
Jan 8

Netflix and the BBC offer a new take on an old favourite but have they pulled it off?
I hit an ARC jackpot at Edelweiss last month and got to read some of the most anticipated books of 2020. The only one I didn’t get that I wanted was The Glass Hotel (come on Knopf!)