Category: Books

Last weekend, I had the privilege of being part of the line-up at Dublin Book Festival, an annual celebration of…

A few weeks ago, I found myself having lunch next to the Belgian author David Van Reybrouck. We were in…

Some years ago, my father-in-law gave me a secondhand boxset of facsimile editions of the first ten Penguins, released in…

This #WITMonth, it was the translator who attracted me to my featured title. I often find this is the case:…

A new book? I hear you cry. Yes! And it’s one that you’ve helped me write. Relearning to Read: Adventures…

This book was one of two sent to me by Colin. He was going on a trip to Kosovo and…

Don’t judge a book by its cover, the saying goes. Frankly, though, if I were assessing Fatou Diome’s The Belly…

Back in 2012, when I tried to source and read a book from every country in the world, Kuwait was…

It’s nearly ten years since I started my Book of the month slot on this blog, after having been blown…

Last week I had a special experience. I was invited to the north eastern Indian state of Assam to participate…