weekly update 22nd May 2023

You’re Not Listening, by Kate Murphy, was probably a highlight for me last week. Diving into the subject of listening … More

Fleishman Is in Trouble, Scenes from a Marriage, The Time It Takes

Fleishman Is in Trouble (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) is a modern marriage story told from the perspective of Toby (Jesse Eisenberg), a divorced … More

I have failed to produce any ‘the best of 2022’, but if someone asked me now for my top 5 … More

Towards the end of last year, my lovely colleague D recommended the book Daisy Jones & The Six (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) by … More

I think of Anxious People (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) by Fredrik Backman as crime fiction. It is a hostage drama, after all, that starts with a … More

Over the last weekend, I finished Reward System (Faber, 2022) by Jem Calder, a debut collection of short stories, which … More

A book that was supposed to distract me from pandemic related worries simply pissed me off. The Silent Patient is a … More

Paul Mendez’s Rainbow Milk (⭐️) was chosen as the next book club read and I’m more curious than ever before … More

I missed this book when it was first published in 2018 and became a US bestseller after Reese Weatherspoon had … More

After reading The Flatshare, which I thoroughly enjoyed, I decided I would take The Switch with me on the island … More