A Tomb With a View by Peter Ross is a fascinating book about graveyards in Britain and Ireland and the stories of some well-known and forgotten residents as well as the work of those who care for...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2024/04/20/books-i-read-in-march-2024/
Wellness by Nathan Hill is set in the 1990s when Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students amid a vibrant art scene in Chicago. The novel follows the ups and downs of their relationship over th...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2024/02/16/books-i-read-in-january-2024/
My list of books to read continues to expand and there are lots to look forward to in 2024. All publication dates where known apply to the United Kingdom only. Wellness by Nathan Hill...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2024/01/13/my-most-anticipated-books-of-2024/
One of the stand-out novels I read in 2023 was Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld which is a fun and refreshingly original take on the genre. I also really enjoyed The Running Grave...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2024/01/12/my-books-of-the-year-2023/
The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith is the seventh outing for Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott’s private detective agency. When they are approached by the family of a young man feared to ha...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/11/17/books-i-read-in-october-2023/
Nine Pints by Rose George is a non-fiction about “the mysterious, miraculous world of blood”. The title refers to the approximate amount of blood we have in our bodies, and George explores va...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/11/15/books-i-read-in-november-2023/
The Fraud by Zadie Smith weaves together three storylines based on true events in the 19th century. A Cockney butcher arrives in London from Australia claiming to be Sir Roger Tichborne, the heir...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/10/13/books-i-read-in-september-2023/
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell is a fictionalised account of the marriage of 15-year-old Lucrezia di Cosima de’Medici to Alfonso, Duke of Ferrera in sixteenth century Florence, mer...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/09/09/books-i-read-in-august-2023/
Stasiland by Anna Funder won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2004 (now known as the Baillie Gifford Prize) and chronicles the lives of several people who lived in the German Democrati...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/08/19/books-i-read-in-july-2023/
The Booker Prize longlist was announced on Tuesday. The 13 titles are: A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernst...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/08/07/the-booker-prize-2023-longlist/
In my Booker Prize blog post last year, I noted that my longlist predictions lists in 2020 and 2021 included the eventual winners in those years: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart and The Promise...
I went to the Hay Festival for a couple of days at the end of May and picked up Regenesis by George Monbiot from the signed copies table in the Festival Bookshop (climate and food seemed to be bi...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/07/15/books-i-read-in-june-2023/
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld is one of my most anticipated books of 2023. Sally is a comedy writer for the late-night sketch show The Night Owls – a fictionalised version of Saturday Ni...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/06/17/books-i-read-in-may-2023/
Red Sauce Brown Sauce by Felicity Cloake is a travel memoir which documents the Guardian food writer’s “British breakfast odyssey” cycling around the UK in search of all the components of b...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/05/18/books-i-read-in-april-2023/
Lessons by Ian McEwan spans the life of Roland Baines, born shortly after the Second World War. Taking in several major world crises from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Chernobyl disaster to th...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/04/08/books-i-read-in-march-2023-2/
Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award in 2021 – two of my favourite literary p...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/03/18/books-i-read-in-february-2023/
The Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist for 2023 was announced yesterday. The 16 titles are: Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo Homesick by Jennifer Croft Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks Children of Para...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/03/08/the-womens-prize-for-fiction-longlist-2023/
Love Marriage by Monica Ali tells the story of 26-year-old junior doctor Yasmin Ghorani who is engaged to fellow medic Joe Sangster. The novel opens with Yasmin’s Bengali immigrant parents mee...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/02/11/books-i-read-in-january-2023/
There are lots of new books due in 2023 which I’m looking forward to reading and my list continues to expand by the day. All publication dates where known apply to the United Kingdo...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/01/14/my-most-anticipated-books-of-2023/
There were three novels which really stood out for me in 2022. Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet was longlisted for the Booker Prize last year and skilfully presents the fictional biography of p...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/01/07/my-books-of-the-year-2022/
For Richer For Poorer by Victoria Coren is the Only Connect presenter’s 2009 memoir about how she became a professional poker player and the first female winner of the European Poker Tour in 20...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2023/01/05/books-i-read-in-december/
Traitor King by Andrew Lownie is an account of the events which followed Edward VIII’s abdication of the throne in 1936 to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Lownie puts forward a convinci...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2022/12/17/books-i-read-in-november/
Longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, Trust by Hernan Diaz was was one of the nominated titles which intrigued me the most. It consists of four manuscripts related to New York financier Andr...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2022/11/12/books-i-read-in-october-2/
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death by Henry Marsh is the neurosurgeon’s account of being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer shortly after his retirement. If you have read Marsh’s fir...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2022/10/15/books-i-read-in-september/
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka is a novel told from the perspective of the women linked to Ansel Packer, a serial killer on death row in Texas counting down the hours to his execution by ...
https://alittleblogofbooks.com/2022/08/14/books-i-read-in-july/