Fiction

Satoru, a single man living in Tokyo, adapts a stray, rather independent, cat who he names Nana (the cat's tale is shaped like a “7” which, in Japanese, is “nana”). Nana reminds him of a cat he had when…

Vikram Seth has a very poetic way of writing (perhaps literally the case in works such as The Golden Gate) with “An Equal Music” no exception. I sort of find him an easier-to-read…

Annie, a young girl, is sent to live with a foster family having turned her mother into the police. Annie's mother is a serial killer who forced Annie to participate in the torture and murder of children…

Ruth Jefferson is a neonatal nurse who has been in the job for many years…and is black. When a white supremacist couple object to her involvement in the delivery of their child a note is placed on the…

“Einstein's Dreams” is a cute little book (literally) imagining the dreams the famous physicist Albert Einstein had while coming up his theories of time. Amongst the chapters of his every day existence…

A collection of Gaiman's short stories published previously elsewhere “Fragile Things” sticks to fiction and poetry with a treat for fans of American Gods with the inclusion…

Silvia Shute is in a coma lying in a hospital bed visited by friends and family cared for with a great deal of tenderness by nurse “Winnie” who suffers through their odd behaviour. Ed, her insecure ex-husband…

Set during the French war in Vietnam the war-hardened, cynical newspaper correspondent Thomas Fowler meets the youthful, idealistic American CIA agent Alden Pyle. Fowler is happy – or at least complacent…

One day fourteen-year old Sophie receives a rather odd letter containing a single sheet of paper reading “Who are you?” So begins a rather unusual correspondence with a reclusive teacher of philosophical…

Part of the way through this book I realised (yes, I am sometimes a bit slow on the up-take) that this was a sequel to Parsons' best seller “man and boy”. Of course, I am not completely ignorant and have…

Jay Mackintosh is obsessed with his childhood relationship with Joe an enigmatic old man that taught him much about life and, er, gardening. So much so that Jay has become a famous author of a book detailing…

“The God of Small Things” tells the fall from grace of a family living in Ayemenem (India) who own a successful business whose pride is ultimately the cause of their fall from grace. We follow the story…

A truly imaginative and troubling novel telling the fictional story of Daisy Goodwill from her traumatic birth in rural Canada to her not so dramatic death in Florida. Daisy's story is generally unremarkable…

On 15th of July 1988 Emma and Dexter on the night of their graduation strike up a relationship that would change their lives forever. Each chapter is on the same day, July 15th, every year as we follow…

Normally I like to read the book before the film when that film is based on the book but in this case I read the book a long time after I saw the movie (see here for that…