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Month: January 2021

January 28, 2021

Right After the Weather by Carol Anshaw

Paperback review by Susan Osborne Set in Carol Anshaw’s home town of Chicago in the months before and after the 2016 election, Right After…

January 28, 2021

The Fresh and the Salt: The Story of the Solway by Ann Lingard

Reviewed by Peter Reason When I was a small boy—and this memory must reach back to around 1950—I played with a wooden puzzle made…

January 26, 2021

Rhododendron Pie by Margery Sharp

Reviewed by Harriet Ever since I started reading book review blogs, some years ago now, I have often encountered Margery Sharp’s name, generally accompanied…

January 26, 2021

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack

Reviewed by Terence Jagger Katie Mack is an American astrophysicist, but her writing is very informal and almost journalistic or chatty – which is…

January 21, 2021

The Searcher by Tana French

Reviewed by Annabel A new novel from Tana French, Irish author of the acclaimed Dublin Murders series is always worth waiting for. Her latest,…

January 21, 2021

The Passenger: Japan

Reviewed by Terence Jagger Early last year, Europa launched a new imprint “for explorers of the world”: The Passenger.  Now, the list includes Berlin,…

January 19, 2021

The Frozen River: Seeking Silence in the Himalaya by James Crowden

Reviewed by Peter Reason Opening this book, I am immediately drawn in: ‘Silence, snow and solitude have got hold of me and will not…

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